December 6th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Tekla (formerly mEADL) is a collection of open hardware and open source applications that may be used to enable access to mobile devices for people with motor impairments. The idea for Tekla was the brainchild of the mobile accessibility team at the I…
November 30th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Gulliver is an open source platform from Google that helps users plan trips in real time with their friends. Using Gulliver, you can create applications for mobile, iGoogle, and mobile web platforms that make it easy to build and share itineraries usi…
November 29th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
My name is Oscar Castañeda, I am a student from Guatemala currently doing a master’s in Computer Science at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands. For the 2010 Google Summer of Code I completed a project with the Google Open …
November 24th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Nearly a year in the making, kernel.org has announced four new machines coming online in November of 2010. This is quite the change in infrastructure, covering two new “heavy lifting machines” and two new backend machines to round out kernel.org’s inf…
November 22nd, 2010 | by Carol Smith | published in Google Open Source
We’re pleased to announce that today marks the start of the Google Code-in contest. Students who are at least 13 years old and not more than 18 years old and are currently enrolled in a pre-university school on November 22, 2010 are eligible to parti…
November 19th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
After having participated in Google Summer of Code for the second time, TYPO3 is now looking back at a truly successful summer where five students worked on projects for TYPO3 4.x, FLOW3, and TYPO3 5.0. Now that the summer has come to an end, we would…
November 15th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
When we first launched Google Project Hosting back in 2006, we wanted to do what we could to encourage best practices around open source development. This was expressed in a variety of ways, one of which was tied into SourceForge’s namespace.Here’s h…
November 10th, 2010 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
Our acquisition of Metaweb back in July also brought along Freebase Gridworks, an open source software project for cleaning and enhancing entire data sets. Today we’re announcing that the project has been renamed to Google Refine and version 2.0 is n…
November 10th, 2010 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
Starting this past July, I had the opportunity to spend some time “Down Under” working as an intern on Google Wave. Since I had worked with Google before on building the open source software that runs the Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in, I joi…
November 5th, 2010 | by Carol Smith | published in Google Open Source
We’re pleased to announce that today we have chosen 20 open source organizations to participate as mentoring organizations in Google Code-in.Here’s a list of our participating organizations this year:1. The Apertium Project2. The Battle for Wesnoth…
November 4th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Last week around 30 Git developers and users gathered for GitTogether ‘10 at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA for three days of hacking, sharing ideas, and making plans for the future of Git and its supporting tool ecosystem. This was th…
November 3rd, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Can you spot the error in the following webpage?Unless you are one of the 56 million Internet users who read Arabic, the answer is probably no. But BidiChecker, a tool for checking webpages for errors in handling of bidirectional text, can find it:Oop…
November 2nd, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
The 2010 Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit was held Saturday and Sunday, October 23rd and 24th, 2010 at Google’s headquarters (the “Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. 230 Mentors and Organization Admins from over 120 open source projec…
October 28th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Last week the R “intergrouplet” at Google invited Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Francois to come and give a Tech Talk about their joint work on Rcpp, RInside, and RProtoBuf. Dirk and Romain agreed and also let us share the video of their talk:We we…
October 27th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
This summer Facebook participated in Google Summer of Code for the first time and we want to share an update on the progress our students made. Unlike most organizations participating in the program, we have a number of open source projects rather tha…
