Google Summer of Code 2010 Info Session at Universidade Estadual de Campinas –UNICAMP
There were about 70 attendees and the session lasted an hour and a half. The first 20-30 minutes were spent on presenting the GPSL FOSS Seminars Series, since this was the first talk of the series for this semester, and going through the official Googl…
Our application deadline for student applications to Google Summer of Code™ has now passed. Thank you to all the students who applied this year! We got 5,539 proposals in all.If you are a student waiting to find out if you will be accepted into the p…
The Google Annotations Gallery is an exciting new Java open source library that provides a rich set of annotations for developers to express themselves. Do you find the standard Java annotations dry and lackluster? Have you ever resorted to leaving mes…
Leuven, Belgium GSoC Infosession
On the 9th of March, Google Summer of Code™ veterans Vincent Verhoeven (student for both KDE and Thousand Parsec), Ruben Vermeersch (K.U. Leuven researcher and GNOME Google Summer of Code admin) and Bram Luyten (@mire co-founder and mentor for DSpace…
RE2: a principled approach to regular expression matching
Regular expressions are one of computer science’s shining examples of the benefits of good computer science theory. They were originally developed by theorists as a way to describe infinite sets, but Ken Thompson introduced them to programmers as a wa…
Low-Impact Operating System Tracing
The Google Open Source Team has the privilege of funding some really great projects in the Open Source space. Mathieu Desnoyers, a student at Ecole Polytechnique, recently defended his Ph.D. thesis, which we helped to fund. The topic of his thesis was …
Life’s a Beach: Google Summer of Code and the Abelian Sandpile Model
The Abelian Sandpile Model (ASM) is a mathematical model of a pile of sand developed by physicists around 1990 to exemplify self-organized criticality, a phenomenon conjecturally ubiquitous in nature. Roughly, self-organized criticality describes a sys…
Libevent 2.0.x is the new version of Libevent from the Tor Project. Libevent is a software library whose purpose is to provide consistent fast interfaces to various operating systems’ mutually incompatible fast networking facilities. gives application…