{"id":495,"date":"2007-11-28T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T18:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/ghop\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T18:03:06","slug":"ghop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/ghop\/","title":{"rendered":"GHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced their <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/opensource\/ghop\/2007-8\/\"> Highly Open Participation Contest<\/a> today. I really hope that the name is not a backronym inspired by the common acronym for International House of Pancakes. GHOP is an effort to bring pre-university students into the open source fold through a Summer of Code-like program. Whereas GSoC projects were required to center around code, these GHOP efforts can be related to documentation, QA, R&#038;D, translation, and assorted other areas, as specified by participating project&#8217;s issue trackers.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/opensource\/ghop\/2007-8\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/ghop-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Google Highly Open Participation Contest Logo\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>10 open source projects were selected for this initial run. <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">FFmpeg<\/a> was not one of them. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/opensource\/ghop\/2007-8\/faqs.html\">FAQ<\/a> page, &#8220;each project has a fairly low barrier to entry&#8221;. I admit, that would eliminate FFmpeg from consideration right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced their Highly Open Participation Contest today. I really hope that the name is not a backronym inspired by the common acronym for International House of Pancakes. GHOP is an effort to bring pre-university students into the open source fold through a Summer of Code-like program. Whereas GSoC projects were required to center around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}