[Opensource] 12 year old gets $3k for finding bug in firefox

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Awesome, I might share this with some of my students. Thanks Donna :-)

Regards Roland

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Chalk up another one for the power of open source!
>
>
> http://ostatic.com/blog/with-open-source-bug-bounties-12-year-olds-can-win-too
>
> Because you can see the code, you can participate.
>
> Google's Code-in is an opportunity for 13-18 year olds to participate in
> open source projects - I hope the example above inspires some of you to
> check out Code-in and get your students involved when it opens :)
>
> http://code.google.com/gci
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