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.

1.) The last date that a task can be claimed is January 22, 2008, 12:00 AM Pacific Time / 08:00 UTC. After that time, no further tasks can be claimed; you may continue to work on tasks you have already claimed. If you're currently working on a task and hope to finish one more before the program ends, make sure that you submit the work for your current task so that it can be reviewed and marked as closed by this deadline.

2.) All tasks must be completed and reviewed by February 4, 2008, 12:00 AM Pacific Time / 08:00 UTC.

See http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/faqs.html#tlq1 for more information about those above two deadlines.

3.) According to the official rules at http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/rules.html (section 6c), for a student to get credit for a task the student's work must be uploaded to the official Google GHOP task associated with that issue. This holds true for tasks that involved creating Drupal.org handbook pages, screencasts, etc. as well. If you have not done so already, please make sure that for each of your completed issues you have uploaded your work to the official Google task for that issue (on the code.google.com website). If you created a handbook page or some other type of web page for your task, you can just create a HTML file containing your work, and zip that along with any images or other content you produced and upload that.

If you created a video or screencast that is too large to be attached to your task, you should upload it to a Google owned video site (such as YouTube or Google Video) just to be safe. Include a link to the video on that site in the Google task.

If you have any questions about uploading your finished work or have problems along the way, please post replies here, and one of the GHOP administrators will try to get back to you as quickly as possible.

If you are feeling bored and want to help the admins out, you can go through the list of closed GHOP tasks at http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-drupal/issues/.... If you notice that a student has not already uploaded his/her finished work, just add a comment to the task reminding the student to do so and provide a link to this post for further information.

Again, please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks to each of you for your awesome work so far on this program, and keep up the good work.

Adam