Kids

Google Pays up to $500 to School Kids in Open Source

Submitted by Bevan Rudge on November 29, 2007 - 9:30pm.

Google will pay high school kids aged 13 to 18 up to $500 for their participation in their newest endeavour to promote open source in the general public.

Google Highly-Open-Participation Contest is a new programme that follows on from the success of Summer of Code. The first round is a bit of a trial and has only ten projects involved, and Drupal is one of them! The others are;

  • Apache Software Foundation
  • GNOME
  • Joomla!
  • MoinMoin
  • Mono
  • Moodle
  • Plone
  • Python
  • SilverStripe

It is both impressive and interesting how many of them are web-content tools (CMS, web-application frameworks, wikis etc).