Help the Project* module! Help get aclight to DrupalCon Boston!

Some of you may have seen Kieran Lal's pitch to the Drupal community to help get Derek Wright (dww) and Chad Phillips (hunmonk) to DrupalCon Boston to work on the crucial Project* modules, and many of you chipped in to help Derek and Chad reach their goals. But the project* team can still use your help!

Adam Light (aclight on Drupal.org) is also trying to get to DrupalCon to work on Project*, and trust me, it will be worth ten times whatever you can give. I have only had limited interactions with Adam, who I don't know personally, but even those limited interactions have blown my socks off. Adam was a tireless volunteer for the GHOP program, and his work with these students was truly out of this world (take a look at any of the GHOP issues that Adam helped out with and you'll see what I'm referring to). As Webchick noted on her blog post asking for help for Adam and Jimmy "boombatower" Berry: "Adam was the one primarily carrying the torch during the latter half of the GHOP program, and was critical to ensuring its success."

I happened upon a blog post Adam wrote in which he requested assistance on the DrupalCon Boston feed, and I think that Adam is a bit too modest to post his request here, so that's why I'm writing this. Here's how Adam describes his contributions to Drupal:

• Getting free tagging for issues (or at least tagging) up and running on Drupal.org. Depending on the final implementation, this new module will allow users with the appropriate permissions to change the taxonomy terms assigned to a node from within a comment on that node (example). Ever wanted to tag an issue with "newbie", "pgSQL", or "javascript" terms? This module will make it happen.
• Comparing other issue trackers to get an idea of what we're doing right and where we have room for improvement. For example, I recently posted a thorough comparison of the Project issue tracking module with the Google code issue tracker.
• I was one of the administrators of the Google Highly Open Participaton (GHOP) project. We've gotten students to complete about 120 tasks of various natures.
• I was the mentor for two Project* related GHOP tasks. One task added automated creation of project issue nodes and comments, and one that adds a filter that turns issue node references in posts into links to the issue itself.

If you can, please help the project* modules, and help get Adam Light to DrupalCon Boston! If you'd like to know more about Adam, take a look at Webchick's Contributor Spotlight that featured Adam.