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And now the news that some of you have been waiting for: the annual list of schools with the largest number of accepted students for Google Summer of Code 2012!RankSchoolCountry# of Accepted Students# in 20111University of MoratuwaSri Lanka29272Polytec…

Congratulations to everyone who was accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012! I hope we have a great summer, and write some free, clean, reusable code.Free Software Macedonia is a local organization from Macedonia that again helped spread the word …

With May comes the annual ramp up of conference season, and Googlers who are part of the open source community will be giving talks and participating in events around the world over the next two months.Last week, Jeremy Allison attended Samba XP, …

So many of you have asked about the number of students from your particular country that we’ve decided to simply post the whole list. Number of Accepted Students by Country India = 227United States = 173Germany = 72Russian Federation = 56China = 45P…

Now that the mentoring organizations have made their selections, it’s time for the first of two posts breaking down the numbers about the students accepted into the 2012 instance of Google Summer of Code.This 8th year of Google Summer of Code is the …

Solving non-linear least squares problems comes up in a broad range of areas across science and engineering – from fitting complicated curves in statistics, to constructing 3D models from photographs in computer vision. Today we’re happy to announce th…

The Git version control system plays a big part in the development of the Linux kernel and its related utilities. Developers around the world need fast access to the repositories hosted by git.kernel.org.Today Google is making available a public mirror…

We have announced the 1,212 students that will be participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code program. Students will now start the community bonding period where they will get to know their mentors and prepare for the program by reading docume…

Earlier today the application deadline for students wishing to participate in Google Summer of Code 2012 came to a close. Thank you to all the students who applied to be a part of this year’s program. We had a record 6,685 student proposals from 4,25…

Students, the deadline for submitting your proposal for Google Summer of Code is only hours away. Be sure to submit your proposal to the program site by this Friday, April 6th at 19:00 UTC (Noon PST) to be considered for this year’s program.For tips …

We held our fifth Google Summer of Code meetup in the Moratuwa, Sri Lanka area on March 17th. We had enormous support from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering staff at the University of Moratuwa to make it a full scale session covering…

At Google, we put a lot of energy into helping localize the world’s information to make it more useful to more people. It’s not just about localizing our own products — we want to provide tools that make it easy for translators and developers arou…

In November 2009 Google announced the Go project, a new open source programming language. Since then more than 200 outside contributors have made thousands of contributions to the code, tests, and documentation. The open source community has been essen…

EclipseCon 2012 begins today in Reston, Virginia with a veritable herd of Googlers on hand to teach, talk and generally hang out with the Eclipse community.The information starts flowing at 9am on Tuesday when Googler Alex Russell delivers the opening …

Cross-posted from the Official Google BlogIt’s only Spring Break for most college students, but summer vacation will be here before you know it. Instead of getting stuck babysitting your little sister or mowing your neighbor’s lawn, apply for Google Su…