GHOPC

The Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Google’s first contest to introduce pre-university students to the many contributions that make open source software development possible, concluded on February 4, 2008. They had nearly 400 students worldwide produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for ten participating organizations.

The contest brought together students from around the world to help ten open source projects make improvements to their code base, marketing materials, documentation and user experience research. Last week, all of the grand prize winners visited our Mountain View, California headquarters for an awards ceremony with Alan Eustace, Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering. Following lunch, they were treated to talks on Google technology, including Android, Google App Engine, Google infrastructure and software testing from engineers including Jeff Dean and Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language.

Click here to see video of the winner and his mentor discussing the nature of the winning project.

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South African Student Wins Google Open Source Challenge

July 18, 2008 |

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About the author: Jonathan Gosier is a software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he incubates and invests in East African entrepreneurs as the CEO of Appfrica Labs. He's also a TED Fellow.