August 3rd, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Potential Google Summer of Code™ students often ask us, “What can I do to gain an edge in the program?” New mentors and project admins often ask, “What helps students succeed?” Well, we have heard several responses to these questions from existing …
July 28th, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
One of the great things about Google Summer of Code™ is that it’s a great way to meet other Open Source-minded people. Not only do students get paired with their mentors, but students get to know each other, as do mentors and project administrators….
July 27th, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
In the 90s, a big company from up north was extremely successful with a dialect of the programming language BASIC (acronym for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). One of the reasons it was so successful was that the language was easy to …
July 25th, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
(click on graph to enlarge)Thursday at OSCON, Leslie Hawthorn gave an update on the state of the 2009 Google Summer of Code program. One of the points that she shared with the audience was the 93% student success rate as of midterm evaluations, which …
July 22nd, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
Yesterday evening, I was privileged to share a stage with OSCON Co-Chair, Allison Randal to present the 5th Annual Google O’Reilly Open Source Awards. We once again opened nominations to the Open Source world at large and we were pleased at the fantas…
July 20th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
OSCON has returned to the San Francisco Bay Area for 2009, and Googlers will once again be out in force to spread the joy of all things Google and Open Source. Please make sure to join us on Tuesday, July 21st for the conference opening ceremonies, whe…
July 20th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit ended just a few days ago, and now everyone is back to work sun-tanned and/or sun-burnt, but loaded with new ideas. The idea behind this summit was to organize GUADEC and aKademy, the yearly GNOME and KDE conferences, on…
July 15th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
A few years ago, we released GWT, the Google Web Toolkit, which allows code to be written in Java using your favorite editors and then compiled into JavaScript that runs smoothly on host browsers. Today, we’re releasing some additional debug tools to …
July 14th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
Google’s Open Source Programs Office has been supporting the MetaBrainz Foundation for the last three years and has just let us know that they’ll be continuing their support in 2009. The MetaBrainz Foundation operates the MusicBrainz project, which can…
July 13th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
On July 2nd, 2009 about 50 people gathered in our Belo Horizonte, Brazil office for the second edition of the Open Source Jam Brazil. Guests were welcomed with an aperitif of snacks and drinks. At about 19:00 we started a round of short talks on variou…
July 7th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
We at Google have been looking at remote desktop technologies for quite a while. The good old X Window system can be used over the network, but it has issues with network latency and bandwidth. Neatx remedies some of these issues.In 2003, NoMachine re…
July 2nd, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Here in London, we recently hosted London Open Source Jam 13 (Our 14th jam, as naturally we count from zero.) – unlucky for some, but not for us! We threw the floor open to talks of any kind and we had a bumper crop of lightning talks on a diverse ran…
July 1st, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Client software products have unique challenges, with one of the important challenges being keeping the product up to date. Deploying critical security fixes in a timely and effective manner is one key way that we help keep users secure. Another benefi…
July 1st, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
SimplexSolver is an easy-to-use, object-oriented method of solving linear programming problems. We’re happy to announce today that we’ve Open Sourced the code that runs the newly released Google Spreadsheets Solve Feature and made it a part of Apache …
June 30th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
Here in Google’s shiny new Sydney office, we recently hosted the first hackfest for OpenAustralia.org. OpenAustralia takes the data from Australia’s record of Federal Parliament speeches, the Australian Hansard, and makes it easy for people to follow t…
