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Google Summer of Code Wrap up: Processing

February 6th, 2015 | by Open Source Programs Office | published in Google Open Source

Today’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) wrap up comes from Daniel Shiffman at the Processing Foundation, the organization responsible for the Processing programming language used in many visual arts applications.

Processing is a programming language and development environment specifically tailored to the needs of visual thinkers and artists. Tens of thousands of people use Processing (often called “p5” for short) for design, performance, animation, cinema, and more. It’s also used in several computer science curriculums for its appeal to visually-oriented learners.

We participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the fourth time in 2014. The students working with us completed eleven projects, many of which are in active use by the Processing community while others will be part of the upcoming Processing 3.0 release. We’ll highlight just a few of these projects below, but we’re grateful to all the students who took part in GSoC with us.

PDE X for Processing 3.0 (Manindra Moharana)

PDE X is a Processing mode that introduces advanced IDE features like code completion, refactoring, live error checking, debugger and more. Manindra helped bring PDE X to a stable state, allowing it to become the default editor in Processing 3.0. Over 30 bugs were fixed as part of this effort. Manindra also added a few new features, including precise error highlighting using the Wagner-Fischer algorithm, manual control over code completion using Ctrl+Space, and a tab outline popup window.

p5.sound addon for p5.js (Jason Sigal)

Jason created the p5.sound addon for the p5.js library to bring the Processing approach to Web Audio. Its functionality includes audio input, playback, manipulation, effects, recording, analysis, and synthesis. Jason also wrote methods for file input / output and ported Processing’s Table / TableRow classes to p5.js.

Contributions Manager for the PDE (Joel Moniz)

The Contributions Manager lets users easily install, remove, and update community-developed extensions from within the PDE (Processing Development Environment). Joel’s work this summer introduced new features to the Contributions Manager, such as the addition, removal and update of Tools and Modes without a restart, a new “examples-package”-type contribution, and highlighting contributions.

Sound for Processing 3.0 (Wilm Thoben)

Wilm began work on a lightweight sound library for Processing in late 2013 and improved on it during GSoC 2014 by adding new features, fixing bugs, and introducing cross-platform support. Sound is built on top of methcla, a C++ sound engine with native bindings for low latency support. Sound provides a collection of sound-synthesis objects, analyzers and effects.

by Daniel Shiffman, Processing Foundation

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2015 Black History Month Google Student Tribute: Elizabeth Davis

February 5th, 2015 | by Sarah H | published in Google Student Blog

At Google, we value diversity and inclusion and support individuals who do the same. In this series, the Google University Programs team is celebrating diversity and honoring Black History Month by showcasing four of our student programs alumni who have done incredible things in their community. This week we’re catching up with Elizabeth Davis, who participated in our 2014 Summer Trainee Engineering Program (STEP) in Zurich.

It’s great to catch up with you again. What’s one of the most exciting things that has happened to you since we last featured you on the blog?
This past fall, I had the amazing opportunity to travel with Google to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference was an incredible experience for me as it was the first real chance I’ve had to connect with so many women of color in Computer Science. I was inspired by the thousands of women present who are not only techmakers themselves, but also passionate about supporting other women techmakers from all over the world. I left the conference with some phenomenal new mentors and friends.

Elizabeth at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2014

Can you give us a quick recap of the Google Women in Engineering Mentorship Program you launched and how it has developed since your internship ended?
During my internship this past summer, I, along with another intern, saw the need to cultivate a stronger community for women at Google. We realized that female Nooglers (new Googlers) needed to feel supported as they began their careers. With that in mind, we worked with the president of Google Women in Engineering (GWE) in Google Zurich, and the Google Head of Diversity for EMEA and decided that our best approach to addressing this need would be to start a mentorship program that connected female Nooglers to experienced employees. We completed an incredibly successful cycle of the program at the Zurich office over the summer, and have actually expanded the program to two other offices: Munich and Krakow. At the end of the summer we also had the chance to talk to the Google Global Diversity and Inclusion Director Yolanda Mangolini who has helped us plan out how we can continue to expand the Google Women in Engineering Mentorship Program (GWE-MP) globally.

What other initiatives have you been working on since being back in school?
As a section leader for our introductory programming course, I have the opportunity to teach undergraduate and graduate students who are trying out programming for the first time. This is a unique opportunity for me to not only help my students build a strong foundation in programming methodology and concepts, but also dispel any misconceptions they may have about the field and hopefully keep them involved in Computer Science.

I’m also involved in she++ which is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering women in the technology industry. We are currently organizing our national #include Fellowship Program, which provides resources and support to high school students who want to start grassroots initiatives to increase Computer Science education in their local communities. Diversity is really important to me so I have also recently begun working with professors in the Stanford Computer Science Department to figure out how to increase the representation of Black and Hispanic students in the CS major.

Why do you think it’s important to give back to others?
Giving back and helping others in need is a huge part of my core values and beliefs. I want everyone to experience the opportunities I’ve had as well as the confidence to pursue their dreams without feeling like an outsider in a largely homogenous community, or feeling like an imposter due to stereotype threats or other factors. I believe everyone has their unique talents and is capable of so much, and I want people of every gender and race within the technology industry to feel confident and empowered.

For information on additional Google student programs, visit google.com/students/programs.

Posted by Maggie Hohlfeld, University Programs team

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Reminder: Support for the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server to end on March 5, 2015

February 5th, 2015 | by Jane Smith | published in Google Apps

Last March, we announced that we’d be ending support for the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server on March 5, 2015. Please note that we’re now one month away from the end of support date. On March 5, we will turn down the underlying services and the Google Apps Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server will no longer sync messages.

Background
Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server allows BlackBerry 7 OS and older devices to connect to Google Apps through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). However, BlackBerry no longer supports the version of BES that the Connector needs. The latest BlackBerry devices also do not require a BES. As a result, we’re ending support for the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server on March 5, 2015.

Who does this affect?
This will affect any Google Apps user with a BlackBerry OS 7 or older device connecting to Google Apps with a BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0.3.

What are my options?
Android and iOS
Android and iOS devices have native apps that support Google Apps.

BlackBerry 10 OS
If you update your device to BlackBerry 10 OS, you can connect to Google Apps using established sync protocols like Google Sync or IMAP / CalDAV / CardDAV.

BlackBerry 7 OS and older devices
If you’d like to continue connecting to Google Apps with BlackBerry 7 OS and older devices after March 2015, you can access mail.google.com and calendar.google.com from your mobile browser.

When will this take effect?
On March 5, 2015, we will end support and turn down the underlying services used by the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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Love is all around: Is your website ready for Valentine’s Day? (Part 1 of 4)

February 5th, 2015 | by John A.Smith | published in Google Adsense

Valentine’s Day is approaching and love is in the air. 25% of customers are planning to shop for Valentine’s gifts online*—a perfect opportunity for advertisers to spend more, and for you to earn more.

To make the most of this busy season, let’s start with tips to optimize ads on your website:

Maximize revenue with multiple ads: Showing more ads can help you earn more. You can put up to three standard AdSense for content ads (this includes a maximum of one 300×600 ad, or similar sized ad) on each page of your site. To ensure you’re balancing ads with your site content, check out our recommendations for creating a great user experience in the AdSense Help Center.

Find the best ad placement for your website: Check out our best practices for ad placement to find the right ad placement for your site, even if you run a News site or Gaming site.

Display both text and image ads: Displaying both text and image ads lets more advertisers compete for your ad space—which means you could earn more.

To receive more tips for your website, update your contact details and ensure you’re subscribed to AdSense emails.

Check back on Monday to learn more about how you can reach your audience across devices.

Posted by Yigit Yucel – Inside AdSense Team
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* Source: National Retail Foundation, January 2015

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Google Groups for Business added to Google Takeout

February 4th, 2015 | by Jane Smith | published in Google Apps

Google Takeout allows people with Google accounts to backup and download their data. Takeout creates an archive of data from one’s Google products that can be used to migrate to another solution. Takeout is already integrated with several Google services―such as Gmail, Drive, and Calendar―and we’re now integrating Google Groups for Business.

The addition of Groups for Business to Takeout will allow group owners to download a JSON file containing a list of member email addresses for each group that they own when using the Takeout service. This includes any groups created in the Admin console as well as those created in Google Groups for Business.

For Google Apps admins, the Takeout service can be enabled or disabled in the Admin console at: Apps > Additional Google Services (Note: if Google Takeout is not listed, click on the filter icon and uncheck ‘Show top featured services’).

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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Trulia sees 30% more engagement using notifications and further innovates with Android Wear

February 4th, 2015 | by Android Developers | published in Google Android

Posted by Laura Della Torre, Google Play team

Trulia’s mission is to make it as easy as possible for home buyers, sellers, owners and renters to navigate the real estate market. Originally a website-based company, Trulia is keenly aware that its users are migrating to mobile. Today, more than 50 percent of Trulia’s business comes from mobile and growth shows no sign of slowing, so they know that’s where they need to innovate.

In the following video, Jonathan McNulty, VP of Consumer Product, and Lauren Hirashima, Mobile Product Manager, at Trulia, talked about how the company successfully leveraged notifications on Android to increase app engagement by 30 percent and has seen 2x the amount of engagement on Android relative to other platforms:

Trulia continues to focus on improving their mobile experience, using Google’s geo-fencing technology to create Nearby Home Alerts, which lets users know when they walk near a new listing. Combined with Android Wear, Trulia now makes it possible for users to see details and photos about a property and call or email the agent, all directly from their watch.

Find out more about using rich notifications on Android and developing for Android Wear. And check out The Secrets to App Success on Google Play (ebook) which contains a chapter dedicated to the best practices and tools you can use to increase user engagement and retention in your app.

Join the discussion on

+Android Developers

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Dimensional weight support in Google Merchant Center lets you specify more accurate shipping rates

February 4th, 2015 | by Rob Newton | published in Google Adwords

When shoppers search for the best deals online, they want to know the full cost of an item — including the cost of shipping. In fact, we’ve seen that unexpected shipping costs are a common reason for users abandoning their online shopping purchases. That’s why we’ve been focused on making it even easier for you to showcase the right shipping cost to online shoppers, when they’re ready to buy.

Carrier-calculated rates in Google Merchant Center are an easy and convenient way to set up accurate shipping rates if you use one of the supported carriers. In the US, several major carriers recently announced that they’ve begun applying dimensional weight pricing when calculating the rates of their shipments. With this change, package pricing not only factors in the weight of the package, but also its dimensions.

To help you show accurate shipping rates for your items, we’re introducing support for dimensional weight shipping rates in Google Merchant Center. This update lets you define the dimensions of your packages used in shipping taking into account the length, width, and height of a package — in addition to the weight you already provide.

We’ve created three new attributes that you can add to your product data to provide the dimensions of shipping packages for an item: ‘shipping length’, ‘shipping width’, and ‘shipping height’. Starting today, when you include these attributes, Google will calculate carrier-calculated shipping rates for supported carriers by taking into account dimensional weights. This ensures that calculated rates reflect dimensional shipping rates to provide users with the most accurate costs.

To learn more about dimensional shipping, visit our Help Center article, and select ‘United States’ at the top.

Posted by Sven Herschel, Product Manager for Google Merchant Center

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Report on IBM Digital Analytics in DoubleClick Search

February 4th, 2015 | by Justin Huskamp | published in Google DoubleClick

When running an e-commerce site, you need an analytics solution to gain insight into visitors’ digital journeys and make swift & educated decisions. To help tie your eCommerce transactions with your search campaigns we’ve launched support for IBM Digital Analytics (prev. known as CoreMetrics) in DoubleClick Search.

IBM Digital Analytics is an enterprise class cloud based digital analytics platform and it collects and analyzes customer’s digital journey including data about conversion events on your site, such as cart additions, abandonments, bounces…etc. DoubleClick Search regularly pulls in the data and uses it to attribute visits & conversions to keywords and populate IBM Digital Analytics reporting columns. In DoubleClick Search you can access the columns via online reports, downloaded reports, and the reporting API. You can also take advantage of the ability to create formula columns and executive reporting charts that incorporate IBM Digital Analytics data.

If you’re interested in getting started, please share your IBM Digital Analytics client ID, DDX API auth token, username, timezone & currency with your DoubleClick Search support contact or . They’ll give you a heads up when your DoubleClick Search advertiser and IBM Digital Analytics account have been successfully linked.

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Offline access to Google Docs editors auto-enabled when signing into Chrome browser on the web

February 3rd, 2015 | by Jane Smith | published in Google Apps, Google Docs

When working in a Chrome browser, people using the Google Docs editors with offline access enabled can work on files even when not connected to the internet. Files are synced so they can be viewed and edited offline, allowing for continued productivity regardless of one’s internet connection.

Setting up offline access manually can be cumbersome, so in a couple of weeks you’ll be able to just sign into Chrome on the web and visit Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides―and offline will be enabled automatically. This is already the default behavior on Chrome OS, so nothing will change there.

Google Apps admins can still centrally enable or disable offline access for their domain in the Admin console (see the Help Center for instructions depending on your version of Google Apps). Existing settings for domain-level offline access will not be altered by this launch.

Note that Google Apps users should not sign into a Chrome browser on public/non-work computers with their Google Apps accounts to avoid unintended file syncing.

Release track:
Both Rapid release and Scheduled release launch coming in two weeks (gradual rollout)

Update to initial post (Feb 25): This feature launch is currently on hold. More details coming soon.

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Updated version of Google Apps Password Sync (GAPS)

February 3rd, 2015 | by Jane Smith | published in Google Apps

Google Apps Password Sync 1.3 is now available with the following new features:GAPS now uses the Admin SDK – Directory API (version 1)Improved Google Apps validation when configuring GAPSSeveral bug fixesNote: All customers running a previous version o…

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Orgs Get Ready: Preparing for GSoC 2015 with Freifunk

February 3rd, 2015 | by Open Source Programs Office | published in Google Open Source

We’re getting ready for Google Summer of Code 2015 and the first step is selecting the mentoring organizations that will take part. Organization applications will open next week on Feb 9th, so we encourage you to think about how your open source project could benefit from participation. Today, we welcome GSoC veteran Federico Capoano from Freifunk to share his enthusiasm with other orgs.

It may be the middle of winter in the northern hemisphere, but we at Freifunk are already fired up about the summer. Organization applications for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2015 will open soon, and we’ve been urging other open source projects to take part. We’ve participated in GSoC six times, but last year left us with a new level of passion and enthusiasm for the FOSS movement.

Freifunk is a decentralized organization which is building community networks in Germany. Community networks bring a FOSS-inspired approach to the computing networks we use every day: an open network built, owned and managed by private citizens who decide how they use it and which services to run on it. Our community has been participating in GSoC with other communities like Guifi (Catalunya and Spain), Ninux (Italy), and Wlan Slovenia (Slovenia). Together we are making great strides toward the realization of our dream networks.

In GSoC 2014, we had eight successful projects completed by students and mentors from many different parts of the world: Europe, South America and Asia. We don’t think about it so often since our contributors are so busy and concentrated on their own projects, but I think it’s amazing that we had volunteers from all over the globe collaborating on open source software applied to open networks!

After the summer, I had the opportunity to attend the GSoC 2014 Tenth Year Reunion which was an incredible experience. I met my Freifunk friends and so many other talented and skilled people working in the FOSS field with many famous organizations from all over the world! Suddenly, I was overwhelmed with a feeling of excitement and enthusiasm!

We had a chance to meet the people of Google Open Source (Chris DiBona, Carol Smith, Cat Allman and Stephanie Taylor) and had the honour of meeting Linus Torvalds, Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig and Dirk Hohndel. Their talks at the event were incredibly inspiring and encouraging. The unconference sessions were very educational and we had an opportunity to discuss improving our GSoC experiences and even the program itself.

It’s difficult for me to describe the whole Reunion experience in words alone, but I can tell you something that might be valuable for you too: this experience ENFLAMED me. If there is something vital to the FOSS movement, it’s enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm and excitement, we wouldn’t go anywhere. Coming home to Europe afterward, we brought all that excitement from our community back with us.

Since then, we’ve been conveying our experience to our friends and motivating people to start new exciting projects and prepare for 2015. I personally talked about GSoC and the #reunion14 at:

Ninux.org meetups and mailing lists
Roma JS (Javascript devs meetup in Rome)
PyRoma (Python devs meetup in Rome)
Cineca, an IT consortium for universities that also works with FOSS (the place where I work)
Fablab Roma Makers

We’ll also be attending several events this year if you’d like to meet up with us: FOSSASIA (Singapore, March 2015), Wireless Community Weekend (Germany, May 2015), OpenTech Summit (Germany, May 2015), Wireless Battle of the Mesh v8 (Slovenia, August 2015), and Chaos Communication Camp (Germany, August 2015).

Similarly, my German friends have talked and written a lot about our last GSoC experience in the different Freifunk meetups, mailing lists, and the main Freifunk blog.

I would like to use this opportunity to encourage everyone in the FOSS community to participate in Google Summer of Code in 2015 because we all need enthusiasm and excitement in our communities. What are you waiting for? Participate and make the best out of it, you won’t regret it.

by Federico Capoano, Freifunk mentor

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The First Annual Testing on the Toilet Awards

February 3rd, 2015 | by Google Testing Bloggers | published in Google Testing

By Andrew Trenk

The Testing on the Toilet (TotT) series was created in 2006 as a way to spread unit-testing knowledge across Google by posting flyers in bathroom stalls. It quickly became a part of Google culture and is still going strong today, with new episodes published every week and read in hundreds of bathrooms by thousands of engineers in Google offices across the world. Initially focused on content related to testing, TotT now covers a variety of technical topics, such as tips on writing cleaner code and ways to prevent security bugs.

While TotT episodes often have a big impact on many engineers across Google, until now we never did anything to formally thank authors for their contributions. To fix that, we decided to honor the most popular TotT episodes of 2014 by establishing the Testing on the Toilet Awards. The winners were chosen through a vote that was open to all Google engineers. The Google Testing Blog is proud to present the winners that were posted on this blog (there were two additional winners that weren’t posted on this blog since we only post testing-related TotT episodes).

And the winners are …

Erik Kuefler: Test Behaviors, Not Methods and Don’t Put Logic in Tests
Alex Eagle: Change-Detector Tests Considered Harmful

The authors of these episodes received their very own Flushy trophy, which they can proudly display on their desks.

(The logo on the trophy is the same one we put on the printed version of each TotT episode, which you can see by looking for the “printer-friendly version” link in the TotT blog posts).

Congratulations to the winners!

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Fighting Bad Advertising Practices on the Web — 2014 Year in Review

February 3rd, 2015 | by Rob Newton | published in Google Adwords

Online advertising helps fund content and businesses on the web, from small family-owned shops to large publishers. While online advertising helps the web to work for all of us, this ecosystem can also attract bad actors that aim to misuse ads for harmful or deceptive purposes.

We work hard to keep our advertising ecosystem clean for users, advertisers, and publishers, and continue to invest substantial resources to stop bad advertising practices. We have a team of analysts who work around the clock to protect users, and continue to hone our detection technology to identify bad ads and stop bad actors as it’s a vital part of keeping our ads ecosystem clean.

As an example, last summer our analysis technology flagged a set of accounts as suspicious. To the human eye, the ads looked like ordinary rental property ads that met our policies. After we dug in deeper, we discovered that the system was right to be suspicious – the vacation rentals turned out to be a scam and the rental properties didn’t exist. Our systems learn from incidents like these, helping us more effectively catch and remove bad ads and advertisers.

For the past several years, we’ve shared insight into our efforts to fight bad actors on the web. Today, we’re sharing new data on how we fought bad advertising practices over the past year. Overall, we disabled more than 524 million bad ads and banned more than 214,000 advertisers in 2014. While this represents a tiny fraction of the total ads on our platform – the vast majority of advertisers follow our policies and act responsibly – we continue to remain vigilant to protect users against bad advertising practices.

Here’s a look into some of the trends we fought against last year:

Combating counterfeiters: Our relentless crackdown on counterfeit goods is producing powerful results. We banned 7,000 advertisers for promoting counterfeit goods, down from 14,000 in 2013 (and 82,000 in 2012), demonstrating that counterfeiters are increasingly unable to circumvent our advanced enforcement systems.
Protecting against malicious software: To protect the safety and security of our users, we stop all ads pointing to sites where we find malware – whether it’s spyware, adware or other types of malicious software. Last year we removed 250,000 sites from our network for hiding forms of malware.
Weighing in against weight loss scams: While many advertisers selling dietary supplements provide accurate information, some bad actors use outrageous claims to entice consumers. In 2014 TrustInAds.org, a group which includes Google, AOL, Yahoo and others, released a report showing that we had collectively removed or rejected more than 2.5 million ads related to weight loss and dietary supplements over the past 18 months.

Here’s a look at our work to get rid of bad advertising practices in 2014:

This is a constantly evolving fight. Bad actors continually create more sophisticated systems and scams, so we too are continually evolving our practices, technology, and methodology in fighting these bad ads. The security of our users is the foundation of our ecosystem, and we’ll continue to work tirelessly to keep people safe online. If you’d like to provide feedback on specific ads or our policies, check out our online form.

Posted by Vikaram Gupta, Director, Ads Engineering

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Google RISE Awards support girls and minorities in tech—from Australia to Mexico

February 2nd, 2015 | by Sarah H | published in Google Student Blog

(Cross-posted on the Google For Education Blog)

When Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people need support, they turn to their daughters. No, really. In a culture whose history goes back 50,000 years, 70 young girls are using technology to give their families a new way to call for help in emergencies. Last year, Engineers Without Borders Australia taught a group of students to build an emergency response beacon using basic hardware and some code to transmit a user’s location and distress message via radio.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up less than 3 percent of Australia’s population, and they’ve historically faced discrimination in society, including in education. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, dropout rates exceed 60 percent in certain regions and Aboriginal students are, on average, 2.5 years behind their peers in scientific and mathematical literacy. The problem is often compounded for girls, who tend to be left out of educational opportunities.

So Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWBA) set out to close the educational and digital divide, developing a program which brings together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal girls to create emergency beacons from scratch by coding a Raspberry Pi to work with an LED, GPS module and FM transmitter. It will also work through issues of stereotyping and discrimination, and help the girls to better understand each other’s worlds.

This is just one example of an organization doing extraordinary work to make computer science (CS) education available to women and other underrepresented minorities. Computer science has tremendous potential to make a real difference in the world—but only when more people can access and harness it.

That’s the idea behind Google’s RISE Awards, through which we support organizations in their work to inspire students around the world with CS. Since 2010, more than 200 organizations have received an award, and this year, 37 organizations are receiving a cumulative $1.5 million to keep this vital effort humming along. Our partners facilitate programs and activities including teaching girls about the intersection of coding and music production in California, promoting computational thinking through game-design in Mexico, and inspiring children in Brazil to program alongside their parents.

This year, three nonprofits will receive a new “RISE Partnership Award”—a grant to work with one or two partner organizations to help grow their CS outreach to a wider scale. One of the three is Engineers Without Borders Australia, which plans to work with MEET—an organization with expertise on how coding skills can build relationships and break down stereotypes—to integrate their curriculum to reach up to 2,000 girls across Australia, including in Aboriginal communities.

With access to hands-on CS education, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls are preparing themselves for the digital economy, contributing to the diversity of our future’s technology, and taking concrete steps to rise above the inequities their community has faced for decades. They’re not alone. We hope that through the RISE Awards and our other efforts to support diversity in technology, these girls and others like them can have an even greater impact. We can’t wait to see it.

Posted by Roxana Shirkhoda, K12/Pre-University Education Outreach

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What’s New in Google Apps newsletter – January 2015

February 2nd, 2015 | by Jane Smith | published in Google Apps

Check out the latest “What’s New in Google Apps” newsletter [pdf] for a roundup of all Apps launches from January 2015.Newsletter Archive & Translated Versions (coming soon for January issue)Note: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps edit…

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Archive for February, 2015

Google Summer of Code Wrap up: Processing

2015 Black History Month Google Student Tribute: Elizabeth Davis

Reminder: Support for the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server to end on March 5, 2015

Love is all around: Is your website ready for Valentine’s Day? (Part 1 of 4)

Google Groups for Business added to Google Takeout

Trulia sees 30% more engagement using notifications and further innovates with Android Wear

Dimensional weight support in Google Merchant Center lets you specify more accurate shipping rates

Report on IBM Digital Analytics in DoubleClick Search

Offline access to Google Docs editors auto-enabled when signing into Chrome browser on the web

Updated version of Google Apps Password Sync (GAPS)

Orgs Get Ready: Preparing for GSoC 2015 with Freifunk

The First Annual Testing on the Toilet Awards

Fighting Bad Advertising Practices on the Web — 2014 Year in Review

Google RISE Awards support girls and minorities in tech—from Australia to Mexico

What’s New in Google Apps newsletter – January 2015

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