Google Highly Open Participation Contest & the PSF
For the past few days I’ve been one of several people helping Titus Brown set up the Python Software Foundation’s portion of the Google Highly Open Participation(TM) contest. GHOP is an extension of...
View ArticleHelp Wanted: Give us work!
Due to overwhelming response, and the fact that we underestimated the skill-level of the contestants, the list of tasks assembled by the PSF for the Google Highly Open Participation contest is running...
View ArticleGoogle Highly Open Participation Contest
Originally published in Python Magazine Volume 1 Number 12 , December, 2007 The Google Highly Open Participation Contest for junior high and high school students is well under way, and the response...
View ArticleGHOP contest progress report
As Andre Roberge points out, the PSF is looking for more Python-oriented projects for the Google Highly Open Participation contest. At some point earlier this afternoon, the last task from our list was...
View ArticleGHOP: In just seven days
Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager on the Open Source Team at Google and lead wrangler for GHOP has posted a video summary of the status one week into the contest, including some feedback from...
View Articlenew statistics package for python: python-statlib
One of the tasks for the Google Highly Open Participation contest was to combine several existing statistics modules into a single package to make it easier to install them. That work is done, and now...
View ArticlePython Magazine for December available for download now
The December issue of Python Magazine went live this morning. If you’re a subscriber, you can download your personlized, DRM-free PDF via your account page right away.Contents:The cover story this...
View ArticleProctorTicket
I have been meaning to post about this for a while, and am just getting around to it. As part of the GHOP contest, Zachary Voase created an add-on for Proctor that loads test failures into Trac as...
View ArticleUpdating Python 3.x docs for GHOP
GHOP planning is under way. The first step, as before, is to come up with the list of tasks that would let junior high and high school students contribute to Python.We had good success last time with...
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