Now this is a very cool idea. Dries has the details of Google’s Highly Open Participation Contest for high school students. In short, it provides incentives for students to help out on open source projects.

Drupal is one of the projects, and this program is a great way to get started with open source.

As a Summer of Code mentor this year, I’m thrilled that Drupal is participating in the project.

I haven’t written in a while. Lots of things to do.

Pretty geeked out about the new “beta7″ release of Domain Access. You can read a list of reasons here.

The big one is Domain Access (DA) integration with Organic Groups (OG). What I have done, actually, is write a patch to the node access system. See the full discussion for the background. What the patch does is allow node_access modules in Drupal to link access rules together using AND logic instead of the default OR logic. Look for an official D7 feature request shortly — which is similar to this request — and both approaches need testing.

I also solved some other issues — including batch update of DA rules using the Domain Content module, and some table prefix and data source issues for Domain Prefix. None of it would have happened without the testers (brave souls). So thanks to the following for helping get this release out:

• grndlvl
• skizzo
• canen
• derjochenmeyer
• moshub
• okday
• lpirotte

And a small apology to MySite users. When I finish the DA work, I will get back to MySite 5.x.3 and the port to Drupal 6.