GNU and Me My name is Marcos Paulino Roriz Junior, and I’m participating in Google Summer of Code™ for the first time this year. I’m really excited because I’ve been developing in Java for some time and this is my first step into FOSS. My p…
I’m Kirk Russell, a Google Site Reliability Engineer who moves files around the cloud at a massive scale. I use BSD software on a daily basis — in my Android phone, my home NAS and my MacBook. My newest toy is a small ARM board that runs FreeBSD….
São Paulo Open Source Jam 2
On July 14th, Google Brazil hosted the 2nd Open Source Jam in São Paulo, Brazil. We had about 40 attendees and 10 talks! Here is a quick summary of the talks that were given.The jam began at about 19:00, and after Rodolpho Eckhardt welcomed our guest…
A while back, we noticed that lots of sites were starting to show 360 degree views of their products.So a few months ago we added a feature to Picasa Web Albums that lets you flip through the photos in an album in “Full Screen View” or “Slideshow…
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, used by a growing number of economists, engineers, and data analysts every day at Google. We’ve even published our R Style Guide on Google Code. The R community has done a lot…
Just over a week ago, we hosted Google London Open Source Jam 17. The event is an opportunity for open source developers to give five minute presentations to their peers, socialise, eat pizza, and drink beer. The topic for this Jam was “Speed” and …
Chris DiBona’s OSCON Keynote: Your Work in Open Source
If you missed seeing Google’s Open Source Programs Manager Chris DiBona speak live at OSCON last week, the video from his keynote is now available online.There are also notes available from multiple OSCON sessions on Google Wave – check out the full …
Live Waving at OSCON 2010
With OSCON underway, we’re excited about the opportunities that many of us have to present at the conference and we’ve taken some time to prepare resources for OSCON attendees to use Google Wave to “live wave” during the event.If you’re not familiar wi…
In three weeks, Googlers from offices around the world will be gathering in Portland, OR for OSCON, O’Reilly Media’s annual open source convention. OSCON will take place from July 19th – 23rd, and we’re looking forward to the opportunity to meet a…
Google Summer of Code 2010 San Francisco Meetup
Carol Smith and Cat Allman (5th and 1st from right) with with meetup participantsTwo weeks ago, Google’s San Francisco office hosted a Google Summer of Code™ meetup. I joined a group of about a dozen others, including Carol Smith and Cat Allman fr…
Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt? We did, a lot, last summer. It made us want to say:$ google picasa create –title “My album” ~/Photos/vacation/*.jpg So we wrote a program to do that, and a whole lot more…
Hello, I’m Jeremy Allison, a Google engineer in the Open Source Programs Office and a Samba Team member. I recently returned from SambaXP, the annual Samba Team coding bash and get-together in Göttingen, Germany, held from May 5th – 7th. There wer…
Umit Project 2010
Umit Project is an international open source organization focused on network monitoring, with the goal of making life easier for network administrators and others who need to be aware of what is happening in their networks. The project developed out o…
Code, Open Source, and Summer Love on the 17th Floor
Jon Trowbridge and Borja Sotomayor welcome students to the Google Chicago officeIt’s springtime in Chicago, and that can only mean one thing: time for the 3rd Annual Chicago-Area ACM-Student/Open-Source-and-Google-Summer-of-Code™ Lightning-Talks-Meet…
Google Chrome’s RLZ library is now open source!
Today on the Chromium blog, we announced that we’re open-sourcing the RLZ library in Google Chrome as its own project. The RLZ library gives us the ability to accurately measure the success of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships in or…