Google Highly Open Participation Contest

[Titus Brown]

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/MentorPage

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/Contributors

and, of course, Google!

best,
--titus