GHOP

As you've no doubt heard, Drupalcon Boston 2008 is on the way March 3 - 6, 2008. I've been contacted by the folks organizing the Community and Core track, and they're very interested in a session at Drupalcon about GHOP. :)

I figure we can have an agenda something like:

• What the heck is GHOP?
• What were the final outcomes of the contest? (statistics)
• GHOP students in attendance get up and show off their cool work
• Show off some other cool work done by students who couldn't attend
• GHOP students and administrators talk a bit about their experiences, what worked/didn't work, and how to continue the "GHOP spirit" post-GHOP.
• Q/A

So...

1. Are you a GHOP student (or admin) planning on attending? If so, leave a comment!
2. Does that agenda sound ok? Too boring? Missing stuff? What do you think?

Let's try and get a proposal together by next Friday, so I can get it into the folks.

Coming

• add1sun (GHOP admin)
• Bevan (GHOP mentor - usability tasks)
• birdmanx35 (GHOP student)
• chx (GHOP mentor - simpletest/benchmarking tasks, plus everything else ;))
• cwgordon7 (GHOP student)
• dmitrig01 (GHOP mentor/general helper-outer/awesome person :))
• EclipseGc (GHOP mentor - theming/UI tasks)
• webchick (GHOP admin)

Not sure

• aclight (GHOP admin)
• boombatower (GHOP student)

Not coming :(
* Corni (GHOP student)
* Corsix (GHOP student)
* kourge (GHOP student)

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.

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...

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/... ?

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

Hello All,

PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE OR TWO TO READ THIS

I am a high school student in America participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest 2007 (http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/) and am working on a task for Drupal. The task is to research how Drupal is used in Africa to demonstrate that Drupal is used worldwide.

I am posting this to you either because you are an Africa group, have an African Drupal site, or have been using Drupal for a while and are knowledgeable (or all three)

Hello All,

PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE OR TWO TO READ THIS

I am a high school student in American participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest 2007 (http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/) and am working on a task for Drupal. The task is to research how Drupal is used in Africa to demonstrate that Drupal is used worldwide.

I am posting this to you either because you are an Africa group, have an African Drupal site, or have been using Drupal for a while and are knowledgeable (or all of the above).

As part of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, add1sun has posted a quick how-to guide for creating a student newspaper with Drupal.

GHOP provides incentives for high school students to participate in open source software projects. As a Summer of Code mentor, I urge everyone to participate. It's a great way to give back to the Drupal community.

If you haven't heard; http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/ and http://drupal.org/node/195913

Congratulations to SilverStripe of Wellington, and Drupal!

Should we bother trying to promote this in High Schools in NZ? How?

Bevan/
Drupal.geek.nz