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Viewing blog entries by the tag 'ghop'
Google Highly Open Participation Awards Ceremony held at the Googleplex
Late last year, Google launched a global software contest for highschool students called the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) contest. The contest boasted some impressive statistics: nearly 400 students around the world contributed a total of about 1000 tasks for ten software projects over a very busy two-month period.
Screencast Tutorials Contributed
One of the tasks offered to high school students earlier this year was to produce screencast tutorials on some of the major things you do with SilverStripe; such as:
Claiming your Google contest prizes
If you participated in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest over the past few months and successfully completed one of more tasks, you must complete a parental consent form and submit your address details if you want your prizes sent to you! Only two thirds of the contestants have completed...
Google Highschool Contest Winners
Since late November, hundreds of highschool students have been working around the world on about one thousand predetermined challenges set by ten open source software packages as part of Google's inaugral Highly Open Participation contest. Today we're excited to name the individuals who distinguished themselves while working with SilverStripe.
Apple iTheme
Joao, another one of our prolific theme builders from the Google highschool contest, recently published a stunning new theme that is free to download, based on the current Apple asthetic.
Google Highly Open Participation contest ends
After a spectacular two months, the contest to engage highschool students with our project has ended. Back in November we came up 60 initial challenges, and we weren't sure they would all get completed. In fact, we've ended up with three times that!
Wojtek updates themes
Wojtek recently finished updating many of his 15 themes with the sorts of changes that a perfectionist always goes back to do. Read the details and head over to the themes download area!
23 new SilverStripe themes!
Thanks to a super-human effort by Google Highly Open Participation Contest participants Wojtek, Jeff, and Joao, we have more than doubled the number of SilverStripe themes. We were careful to come up with a diversity of design aesthetics, so check them out and get a SilverStripe website looking the way...
Interview with Jeff, GHOP student in the Silicon Valley
Completing my interviews with the top three GHOP students in terms of quantity of tasks, is Jeff from San Jose, considered the capital of the Silicon Valley. His work in the contest so far includes website themes, a website, widgets, and translating SilverStripe's interface into Taiwan's dialect of Chinese.
12 hours left to be a part of Google's highschool contest!
The first phase of Google's highly open participation contest draws to a close at 12:00AM US Pacific Time (08:00 UTC) (21:00 NZST) on January 22, 2008, which is about 12 hours away (See official contest timeline).