April 10th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamEarlier this year, we concluded the first Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP), our pilot initiative to get pre-university students involved in Open Source development. Given how difficult it was for the p…
April 8th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Alastair Maw, TV Ads Engineering TeamApache Wicket is a Java component-based web framework, with a fast-growing community surrounding it. Google recently hosted the Apache Wicket London Users Group for the second time at our offices in the heart of…
April 7th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe’ve just finished taking applications for Google Summer of Code™ 2008, and we’re pleased to say that our mentors will be kept quite busy reviewing them for the next two weeks. We received more than 7,000 applica…
April 4th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Ian Lance Taylor, Systems Software TeamI submitted my first patch to the GNU linker in 1992. In 1993 I knew enough about its shortcomings, and started to argue that we should rewrite it from scratch. In 2006, just 13 years later, and now working a…
April 1st, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Allison Randal, O’Reilly Media Early in March, Google’s Open Source Team hosted a one-day concurrency summit organized by O’Reilly Media. The participants represented a broad spectrum of interests and perspectives, from fast-paced startups, to a…
March 31st, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamThis year, we experimented with the Google Summer of Code&trade program timeline, providing one week for students to discuss project ideas with their mentors and then a single week to submit applications. The good n…
March 28th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By T.V. Raman, Research ScientistLast November, we announced the release of the AxsJAX framework as an Open Source project hosted on Google Code. The convenience afforded by having HTTP access to the GoogleCode repository has meant that this project ha…
March 27th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Michael Weiss-Malik, KML Product ManagerKML has seen tremendous uptake as a GIS data presentation language, in large part due to its simplicity. The ability to quickly and easily read or write small bits of KML by hand helps newcomers to rapidly exp…
March 26th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Chris DiBona, Open Source TeamGoogle’s Open Source Team is a proud supporter of many Free and Open Source technical and advocacy organizations. From time to time, we ask that these colleagues give an update to the community about their latest and g…
March 25th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWhen Jono Bacon told us he wanted to bring LugRadio Live from the United Kingdom to the United States, we were all for it. We’d heard great things from so many colleagues about how fun and community-oriented the show…
March 24th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe are now accepting student applications for Google Summer of Code&trade 2008. Our flagship program to introduce university students to Open Source development is now in its fourth year, and we’ve welcomed 175 proje…
March 19th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Brenda Wallace, Catalyst IT and Geek Girl at LargeWellington, New Zealand’s first Girl Geek Dinner was held last week on the 12th of March 2008 and was a giant ball of fun and tech. Held at the Long Xiang restaurant on Dixon street, more than 50 Gir…
March 17th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe’ve just announced the list of accepted mentoring organizations for Google Summer of Code™ 2008, and you can check out more details for each of them on the program home page. After reviewing over 500 applications…
March 17th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Bob Lee, Google Guice TeamWe’d like to thank the Google Guice developers and users who helped jolt the industry in 2007. Dr. Dobb’s honored Guice with the 18th annual Jolt Award in the Libraries, Frameworks and Components category:The Jolt Awards re…
March 15th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Jason Robbins, Open Source TeamIn one Dilbert cartoon, Dogbert confronts a long-winded technology “guru” by showing him some actual code, which blows him away. It’s funny because it’s true: some long, abstract discussions can turn into short, concr…
