Welcome to the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Apache Software Foundation section!

What's this?

Google is holding a contest for pre-university students (high school and secondary school students) to encourage younger individuals (from age 13) to participate in open source.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), which develops open-source software, is participating in this contest. The ASF will work with students to complete various tasks. To learn more about the ASF, please check out http://www.apache.org/foundation/faq.html.

See also: Contest FAQs and Official Rules. ASF members and invited guests can also join the internal discussion group.

To be usable by projects of the Apache Software Foundation, all works will have to be licensed under the Apache License, see http://www.apache.org/licenses/ .

How to Get Started

To get started, see the list of tasks in this project's issue tracker (that's the issues tab on top of this page).

How to Get Help

The ASF being a federation of projects, there is no unique address to ask about the ASF-specific aspects of this program. Each task (in the issue tracker) includes the email address of a project mailing list, specific to the project in question, where you can get help.

Do not use any ASF-wide mailing lists for questions - this will only annoy people and you most probably won't get help.

How do we coordinate inside the ASF

If you're an ASF committer (if you have to ask what this is you're certainly not one), use the asf_ghop discussion group, and/or see the messages that were sent to you PMC recently about this program. You can also suggest tasks via the Tasks page, and project admins will move them to the issue tracker if accepted.