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Google Summer of Code Extends to Highschoolers
phobonetik writes "Building on three successful years of engaging University students with over one hundred open source projects, the Google Summer of Code program is being complemented with the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, launched today.
Running initially as a pilot involving 10 open source projects, the contest is open to any student enrolled in highschool education. Students choose from a list of several hundred predetermined tasks that improve the open source project, and get paid small sums for their successful completion. At the end of the contest (4th Feb 2008), each of the ten open source projects nominate their best contributor, who wins a grand prize." I wish there would have been something like this when I was in high school... I wonder how great my BBS door games would have been if there was a chance of getting cash and trips.
Honestly, how many Google stories in one day? One week? Perhaps we can do like mailing lists and distil it down to a single weekly summary?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Iranians aren't allowed because it wouldn't suit US corporations, such as Google, for middle class professionals from here to rub noses with middle class professionals from Iran and see they are just normal people like us. The only news on US television about Iran is how its leader said he wanted "Israel wiped off the map" (although people who actually know Persian here noted how he never said the words wiped or map in the sentence they're quoting - which of course the corporate commissars know all along). Or they say Iran is killing Americans in Iraq. Or are flipping out over Iran saying it wants nuclear power plants. Henry Kissinger supported Iran having nuclear power plants when the Shah was in power, suddenly he's turned against it and said there he's decided there is no reason Iran needs nuclear power. I seriously doubt more than 5% of Americans know the CIA staged a coup in Iran in 1953, putting a brutal dictator in power for 25 years. The main enemy of the US in the Middle East in the minds of the people who run the country are not Islamic fundamentalists - the US supported the mujahideen, the Saudi government etc. It is secular middle class professionals like yourself, especially those with populist and "pan-Arab" leanings (although a Shiite Persian culture is not leaning towards Pan-Arabism).