Welcome to Joomla!'s Google Highly Open Participation Contest^TM Site

About Joomla!

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

About the Contest

Before choosing a task, make sure that you are familiar with the Contest Rules. Please also read the contest Frequently Asked Questions. You can find all of these details and more on the Google Highly Open Participation Contest Page.

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 Further Information page on the wiki for pointers to additional resources.

There are some pages on the Wiki Tab that provide useful background and other information.

Community Participation

We hope that the Joomla! community will be actively engaged with the contest.

Please welcome and encourage the student participants when you meet them in the forums and elsewhere. Answer their questions and give them good advice. We have a special forum for the contest, and you can also add comments to the tasks. If you have links that you think would be helpful for the task, please put them in the comments even though the links will not be live.

If you have suggestions for more tasks, please visit the CommunityContributedTasks page and add them to the comments.

Completed Tasks

All completed contest tasks are cross-referenced on the Joomla! documentation wiki. You can also read profiles of our students there too.