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Thursday, 17 July 2008

South African student wins open source prize, visits Googleplex

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Earlier this year, we announced our ten grand prize winners for GHOP, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest - our first initiative to get pre-university students involved in open source software development. The contest brought together more than 350 students from around the world to help ten open source projects make improvements to their code base, marketing materials, documentation and user experience research. Last week, all of the grand prize winners visited our Mountain View, California headquarters for an awards ceremony with Alan Eustace, our Senior Vice President of Engineering. Following lunch, they were treated to talks on Google technology, including Android, Google App Engine, Google infrastructure and software testing from engineers including Jeff Dean and Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language.

We were very pleased to welcome Grand Prize winner Federico Lorenzi from Cape Town, South Africa. Federico wrote software and created training materials for the MoinMoin project, an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. He was chosen as the grand prize winner from among all of MoinMoin's student contestants based on his high quality solutions to coding problems and for doing an excellent job communicating with the rest of the MoinMoin developer community. Federico's brother, Luca, and his mentor, Alexander Schremmer (pictured below with Federico), both attended the awards ceremony.




In this short video, Federico and Alexander talk about about their work in the contest.



The results of the GHOP contest have been truly impressive. We're proud to have played a part in connecting these students to open source development opportunities. Many congratulations especially to Federico for his accomplishments!

Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, Open Source

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Un étudiant sud-africain gagne le premier prix du concours Google Open Source et visite le Googleplex

Il y a quelques mois, nous avons annoncé les noms des 10 gagnants du concours open source organisé par Google, notre première initiative visant à impliquer les étudiants pré-universitaires dans le développement de programmes open source. Plus de 350 étudiants venant du monde entier ont participé au concours et à 10 projets open source auxquels ils ont apporté des améliorations de programmation, de marketing, de documentation et de recherche sur l’expérience utilisateur.

La semaine dernière, les 10 gagnants ont visité le siège social de Google à Mountain View en Californie où ils ont été invités à une cérémonie de remise des prix présidée par Alan Eustace, le Senior Vice Président d’ingénierie. Après un déjeuner en équipe, les gagnants ont été invités à des conférences sur la technologie Google, notamment sur Android, Google App Engine, l’infrastructure de Google, et des tests de programmes, par des ingénieurs tels que Jeff Dean et Guido van Rossum, le créateur du langage de programmation Python.

Nous étions ravis d’accueillir le grand vainqueur Federico Lorenzi qui vient du Cap en Afrique du Sud. Federico a créé un programme et la documentation de support pour le projet MoinMoin, un moteur Wiki très avancé, facile à utiliser et extensible, qui bénéficie d’une large audience d’utilisateurs. Federico a été choisi comme grand vainqueur parmi tous les étudiants participant au projet MoinMoin grâce aux solutions de grande qualité qu’il a su apporter aux problèmes de programmation et pour récompenser son attitude remarquable à communiquer avec la communauté de développeurs MoinMoin. Le frère de Federico, Luca, et son mentor, Alexander Schremmer (en photo au-dessus avec Federico), ont tous deux assisté à la cérémonie de remise des prix.

Le court-métrage (au-dessus) montre Federic et Alexander qui parlent de leur travail et du concours auquel ils ont participé.

Les résultats du concours open source ont été véritablement impressionnants. Nous sommes fiers d’avoir permis de mettre en relation ces étudiants avec les opportunités de développement dans l'open source. Félicitations, tout particulièrement à Federico et ses résultats !

Posté par Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, Open Source
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