Welcome to the working group for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP). Students, feel free to post here with your questions! Community members, please help the students over any hurdles, and also use this group to brainstorm about additional GHOP tasks.
You can view, claim or add tasks on our Drupal GHOP Issues List.
NOTE: You only have until midnight, February 4, 2008 Pacific Time to complete your tasks and have them reviewed and marked closed!
GHOP Students: Important reminders
Hello everyone
With GHOP 2007 getting close to the end, I want to remind the participating students of a few important points. If you're not a student, you don't need to read any further.
Read moreNew Drupal theme! (created as part of the GHOP contest)
If you don't know what this is all about, check out the page on GHOP.
I've created a new tableless, CSS-based XHTML theme. It's a three-column, fluid layout, pictured to your right. No, it won't disappear into white like pictured, but it's still a good theme (in my opinion). If this seems exciting to you, read on...
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TinyMCE related GHOP task: TinyMCE defaults
The TinyMCE Defaults module: set up TinyMCE, along with secure input formats, with a mouse click.
Please give feedback on the issue: http://drupal.org/node/202062
@addisun/webchick/other GHOP admins: should I copy the task description over to the GHOP issue queue at http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/issues/... ?
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Coding task for GHOP
I have been partially responsible for some abandon-ware in the viewfield.module that would be useful for others if it were integrated back into viewfield, or created as a new project. I'm not sure if it's too much or appropriate as a GHOP task. Can I please have some feedback? http://drupal.org/node/169692#comment-662613
Read moreIssue Proposal: Atom feed views
I am especially interested in whether or not this should just jump to Drupal 6 support. I'm not up on whether Views2 is far enough along for a GHOP project.
Summary: Port an old patch meant for Drupal 4.7 to Drupal 5 so Atom module could support views (http://drupal.org/node/70596).
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New google tracker feature: Due Dates!
So anyone on the administration team knows that one of the most really un-fun things is going to each issue that's marked "Claimed", looking at the date the task was claimed, looking at the estimated time laid out, pulling out their abacus and fiddling with it for awhile, and coming up with whether or not they need to set the task as "ActionNeeded" or not. Also, going through all the "ActionNeeded" tasks and marking them as "Open" if it's been > 24 hours. Tons of fun, let me assure you.
So let's knock that off, with two new tricks!
- Henceforth, all task timelines will be one week, unless other arrangements are made. This will allow for things like weekends, exams, or us dragging our feet reviewing things. Also, math is hard. Looking at a calendar is easy. ;)
- When marking a task as "Claimed", give it a label like DueDate-2007-12-14. This will then show up as a nifty, sortable field in our issue tracker, so we can instantly see what tasks are overdue and need their statuses changed. Kudos to Moodle for this tip!
Interesting facts
- We are now allowed up to 200 tasks, rather than the previous 102.
- We are also allowed longer task frames than 5 days if we so choose. But bear in mind that tasks are tied up for the duration of their estimated time, so if we block off a task for 4 weeks and the student doesn't follow through, that effectively removes it from the contest. Shorter deadlines seem to be best, both for us and the students.
- Google's approved the use of "Study problem X and define five tasks that could be done to fix
I'd like to help with the administration of the GHOP program! How do I start?
GHOP is an amazing program that has already yielded some fantastic results. However, in order to continue the success of this program until the finish line (Feb. 4), we need your help!
There are three ways to help with the administration of the GHOP program:
Please note that students eligible for the GHOP contest are not allowed to propose tasks and such.
Read on to find out more...
Read moreReminder (revised): Keep eye on tasks that need review
To folks helping out with the administration of this program, please keep your eye on http://drupal.org/project/issues/?text=GHOP&states=8. Ideally, we want this to always be at 0 issues.
We have a couple students whose tasks are probably done, but they are being held up by lack of review. This is bad for the students, and bad for us, too, because students can't take on new tasks until their existing ones are marked "Closed." (aka "Done")
Thanks a lot!
Read moreNew GHOP task workflow
The first week of this contest was a bit hectic, because two of the primary organizers were on business trips, and we were starting to get used to the tools available to us. This weekend, a few of us did some brainstorming about how to better streamline things and get the community involved more.
aclight came up with the following solution:
Read moreAdmins: Announce list for keeping track of tasks
I've created a read-only announcement list with all of the various issue updates so that more than just myself and Addi can get emails on them. So if you'd like to get notifications on these so you can help with administrative things like changing issue statuses (marking tasks as "Claimed" or "NeedsReview"), or answering student questions that are posted to issues, please subscribe to the group.
http://groups.google.com/group/drupal-ghop-2007
Please see http://groups.drupal.org/node/7360 for guidelines on administering tasks, and feel free to edit that page as things come up.
Read more*Solved* Help with Theming a CCK Input Form
Solved
very strange , but i commented print_r(array_values($form)); and than it works
so i try to theme 3 different kinds of input forms
all is displayed well, but there is NO save into the DB or no elements are sent by the submit Button
thats my theme
http://drupal.pastebin.com/mb5311a6
the normal form works very well
So what do i have to do that the data is saved
GHOP Project: Marketing Drupal with a Brochure
Hi all,
I have claimed the task to make a new brochure for Drupal to be used as a marketing tool at future talks and conferences.
I have already made two mockups which I would like your input on to see if there is any way in which I can improve the brochure, whether the design, layout or content. However, please do bear in mind that the content is editable and that the Marketing team will be able to change any textual content which displeases them with ease by editing the source files, which will be provided once I have completed the task.
Read moreHelp with Color.module
I am seeking someone with knowledge of the inner workings of the color.module. This is not a theming question, but rather i need to figure out a way of overriding the names of the regions on the theme config page. Color module ships with 5 regions, Header top, Header bottom etc. I need to find away of changing what these are called. I am thinking that because color.inc gets included by the color.module, I can override in there, but as of yet have failed to do so. Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
Read moreGHOP Task suggestions
Note as of 2007-12-11:
This thread is now closed.
Please post task ideas to the drupal.org GHOP issue queue instead.
Guidelines: How to Propose Tasks
- Tasks need to follow the guidelines/template from of http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/wiki/Ho... and have clear descriptions and deliverables, not be vague ideas like "Well what about something with such and such module?"
- Tasks should be scoped such that they take a 13-18 year old
between 2-5 daysone week to finish. - Tasks can be about pretty much anything: coding, documentation, user experience, translation, etc. Just bear in mind that we only have
102200 of these, so we should aim for high-impact tasks that will help the project as a whole (and also look good on a college application :)). - Students eligible for the contest
are not allowed to propose tasks (sorry!)ARE allowed to post tasks, but can't claim tasks that they propose. - Before you actually create a task on Google's task tracker, please read our directions on how to propose (and review) new tasks.
- Head over to #drupal-ghop on irc.freenode.net if you want to discuss ideas in "real time."
Usability in Google HOP programme
There are a few issues in GHOP on usability and a several for user interface. Most of the user interface issues are already claimed, but none of the usability ones have any interest yet. I wonder if they are just newer if kids aren't interested in usability, or if the tasks are too vague.
How can we promote usability in the programme? With youths?
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