About GNOME

GNOME is proud to be a member of the first Google Highly Open Participation Contest!

The GNOME project offers an easy to understand environment for your computer. Our project is centered around the GNOME desktop environment and the GNOME development platform:

• the GNOME desktop environment is an intuitive and attractive desktop for users. It is composed of all the applications you need to run your computer, like a file manager, a browser, a mail client, etc.
• the GNOME development platform is an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.

GNOME is free software, which means that you (and everyone else!) can freely download, use, modify, and redistribute the source code.

Our homepage is at: http://www.gnome.org/

About the Contest

Before choosing a task, make sure that you are familiar with the contest rules, regulations and terms of service. You can find all of these details and more on the Google Highly Open Participation Contest page.

Please also read the Contest Official Rules and the Frequently Asked Questions pages.

Students: Getting Started

If you are looking for the student contestant list of tasks, please visit the Issues Tab.

If you are looking for documentation or help in completing a particular task, please visit the FurtherInformation page on the wiki for pointers to additional resources.

GNOME Community: Getting Involved

You can help with our participation in this contest by suggesting new tasks for students. Go to the Issues Tab and open a new issue. Please read the HowToWriteAGoodTask page first. Administrators will review your suggestion before students can start working on it.

You can also subscribe to the gnome-love mailing list, where students will ask questions. Replying to questions and helping guide the students is a valuable contribution to the success of this contest!

Contact

If you need any help, please contact the gnome-love mailing list. All students are encouraged to subscribe to this list and help each other!

If you need to contact a GNOME administrator for GHOP, please contact the soc-mentors-list mailing list. It is a private mailing list where you can reach all the administrators. Please prefer sending a mail to the gnome-love mailing list for issues that are not private.

Have fun!