When we published the annual list of schools with the largest number of accepted students for Google Summer of Code 2012, we received an email pointing out that we were missing one school that belongs in the Top 10. PESIT – Peoples Education Society i…
Our acquisition of Metaweb back in July also brought along Freebase Gridworks, an open source software project for cleaning and enhancing entire data sets. Today we’re announcing that the project has been renamed to Google Refine and version 2.0 is n…
Starting this past July, I had the opportunity to spend some time “Down Under” working as an intern on Google Wave. Since I had worked with Google before on building the open source software that runs the Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in, I joi…
Back at the end of January, when Google first announced that Google Summer of CodeTM was on for 2010, I happened to read the mail in the company of a group of Computer Science M.Sc. students. I quickly shared the news with them but rather than cheers o…
The Joomla! project was thrilled to sponsor 18 Google Summer of Code students for 2009, and we are pleased to report that 16 (89%) successfully completed their projects. Most of the projects were based on ideas generated by the Joomla! community, and o…
The Etherboot Project is very pleased to have participated in Google Summer of Code™ 2009. This summer marks our fourth consecutive annual participation in this excellent mentoring program.Google generously sponsored five students to work with us, a…
The Apertium Project works on open-source machine translation and language technology. We try to focus our efforts on lesser-resourced and marginalized languages, but also work with larger languages. To date, we have released translators for 21 languag…
SWIG is a programmer’s tool designed to make it easier to use C and C++ code from other popular programming languages such as Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Java, and C#. 2009 was SWIG’s second Summer of Code, and this year we mentored five projects related …
In July we announced that we were working on a project called Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system based on the Google Chrome browser and built for today’s web. For the past few months we have been working hard on developing a solid founda…
Here at Google, we believe programming should be fast, productive, and most importantly, fun. That’s why we’re excited to open source an experimental new language called Go. Go combines the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Pytho…
We held the 14th Google London Open Source Jam at our Victoria HQ on September 24th. The topic this time was “Video and Sound”, and our Jammers had some real treats to share.Steven Goodwin told us how his open source SGX 3D graphics engine deals with t…
The leaves are turning here in Mountain View, but they are not the only ones blazing away. It’s a busy time of year for open source for Google, with lots of talks and events going on.Recently:- Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian (Fitz) Fitzpatrick gave the…
It’s time for more tasty statistics about Google Summer of Code 2005 – 2009. After much crunching and gathering, we have added the 2009 Accepted Students by School data to our published statistics page. Here are some highlights…* We had a total of 5…
Every year several hundreds of Debian contributors from around the world get together at DebConf in a different city to share a week (or more!) of work, friendship and fun.The 10th annual Debian Developers Conference just ended a few days ago in the be…
Last month, around 250 invited scientists and science-related journalists, artists, and educators flocked to Google for the fourth annual Science Foo Camp (SciFoo). SciFoo is an unconference jointly presented by Google, O’Reilly Media, and Nature Publ…