GHOP

So, (Yes, I know I started with so, it was deliberate), I just read about Google’s GHOP and signed up.  By working on open source projects we all love, I can earn cold hard cash, supposedly – cool.  There are a number of tasks – for one you get a T-shirt, for each three you get $100 up to a max of $500.

Designed for over 13s but before university, it’s a brilliant way to get some of the many teen computer enthusiasts into open source coding by giving them an incentive and some bite size chunks.  For me, it’s a great way to spend my free time whilst making decent money and having fun.  It’s a pity the projects and issues available are limited – the only ones written in C/C++ are glade and apache, and apache has very few code issues.  I’m mostly looking at GNOME, as I know and use it, and it should be a good way to learn GTK programming too.  Oh, and now I can spell mnemonic perfectly .

I’ve just claimed my first task (Or “issue” as they call it), and am hacking away at glade while waiting for confirmation.