Dear Python community,

I'm happy to announce that the Python Software Foundation is part of a new Google Open Source program, the Highly Open Participation Contest. This contest is an effort by Google to engage pre-college students in open source programming: Google is offering prizes and awards for completing a variety of tasks for several organizations.

You can read the official announcement of the PSF's involvement over on the Python Software Foundation blog, at

http://pyfound.blogspot.com/

or read about the overall Google Highly Open Participation Contest on the GHOP page itself,

http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8

Python's project page is:

http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-psf/

There are several ways that the community can help; please check out the MentorPage,

http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-psf/wiki/MentorPag...

for more information. We could use more mentors, and there's room for ~40 more tasks -- why not write one up on your own project?

Also be sure to thank the people who made this possible,

http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-psf/wiki/Contribut...

and, of course, Google!

best, --titus