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Note: This post assumes that you are aware of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. If not, see that link.

Highlights

As of right now, since the contest's inception on November 28, 2007:

• We've had participation from 42 students, of which 27 (64%) have completed one or more tasks.
• We've had a total of 36 tasks completed so far, in areas such as code, documentation, quality assurance, user interface, outreach, training, research, and translation.
• Of the students who have completed tasks, 60% are *new* contributors who came to Drupal because of this program. Of those, two have already completed 4 tasks and are on their 5th!
• We have over 100 task slots available; we currently have used up 73 out of 200.
• We are desperately short on task contributions from the community. There are currently only 8 remaining tasks for students to choose from!! Unless we can turn this situation around within about 24 hours, students are going to end up going with projects like Joomla! and Python once they finish what they're working on. Yay!! Thanks SO much for your help! Please keep those great task proposals coming! Now what we really need are people to review and improve the existing task ideas so we can get them added to the queue!

Read on for more info on how these students are completely rockin' and how you can help them continue to do so.

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