Students, want to gain real world software engineering experience and get paid? We are now accepting applications for Google Summer of Code™ 2010, our global program to introduce students, ages 18 and over, to the wonderful world of Open Source devel…
GNOME Usability Hackfest
Google recently sponsored the GNOME Usability Hackfest, which took place in London. With over 30 GNOME design and usability experts attending on some days, it was an unusually large, exciting and dynamic event. As GNOME 3.0 is just around the corner,…
Training a Toy Elephant with Google Summer of Code
Google has redefined many many things. It has redefined scalability. When the entire world was racing towards high performance computing, Google came up with MapReduce and the Google File System that allowed them to process the whole web in a matter of…
Meet Your Mentors: Announcing Accepted Project for Our Sixth Google Summer of Code
We’ve just announced the list of accepted mentoring organizations for Google Summer of Code™ 2010. Congratulations to all of our future mentors!After reviewing just over 365 applications, we finally narrowed our selection to 150 Free and Open Source …
Google and the Tor Project
When it comes to code, Google’s support has made a big difference to the Tor Project. Providing privacy and helping to circumvent censorship online is a challenge that keeps our software developers and volunteers very busy. The Google Summer of Code™…
The XMMS2 Team Hard at WorkPhoto by Sébastien CeveyLast weekend I arranged and participated in the first XMMS2Con. For those not familiar with XMMS2, it’s a cross-platform Free software media player software suite that allows you to play audio files, …
The GNOME.Asia Summit 2009 was held at Quang Trung Software City in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam this past November. The event attracted more than 1,000 participants from 14 countries including Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapo…
With new year upon us, I thought I would take a minute to update everyone on the great progress made in 2009 by the LLVM Project. For those not familiar with LLVM project, it’s a cross platform complier infrastructure. We had two successful releases of…