Last weekend the Sunlight Foundation and Google hosted TransparencyCamp West, an unconference dedicated to making our governments (from municipal governments all the way up to the federal government) more accessible and transparent. The intent was to …
The ICU project is celebrating 10 years of being open source this month.”ICU” in this case stands for International Components for Unicode – not to be confused with Intensive Care Unit or International Communist Union… It is the premier software inte…
My karma was apparently very good three weeks ago. In the last minute I secured an invitation to Linux Storage and Filesystems Workshop 2009 (LSF). This year the invitation-only workshop was hosted by the Linux Foundation on April 6-7 in San Francisco…
As the fifth instance of Google Summer of Code gets underway, we thought it would be interesting to look back at the first four years. Our team is frequently asked things like, “How many countries are represented by the participants?”, or “Did anyone …
Leslie Hawthorn of the Open Source Programs team is heading to the bright lights of Las Vegas to speak at Joomla! Day Las Vegas coming up April 3rd through April 5th, 2009. If you are interested in Joomla!, haven’t had a chance to hear LH speak before…
By Marcus Boerger, Software Engineering Team and PHP Core DeveloperI recently attended PHP Quebec 2009. This was the seventh year of this gathering of PHP developers and though we had a new venue the conference was great as always. As one of my fellow…
By Cat Allman, Google Open Source ProgramsIt’s going to be chilly next week in Brussels but FOSDEM is always a place to explore hot topics in the FOSS world. Our Leslie Hawthorn will be finishing off the conference with the closing keynote on large sca…
By J.J. Lueck, Data Liberation FrontBlog authors around the world, Google would like to remind you that it’s your blog, your data. Now that Blogger allows users the ability to export all contents of their blog, the Data Liberation team would like to a…
Post by Zhanyong Wan, Software Engineer – Engineering Productivity TeamSince we open-sourced the Google C++ Testing Framework in July 2008, many people have asked us when we will release a mocking framework to go with it. You asked, we listened; today …
By J-P Stacey, OxfordGeeksOn Wednesday 22 October, over a hundred geeks attended the ninth Oxford Geek Night, upstairs at the Jericho Tavern. After the musical theme of the previous OGN, this one had a distinct flavour of online publishing.Jeremy Rusto…
By Albert Santoni, Mixxx ProjectGoogle Summer of Code 2008 has been a great opportunity to bring fresh new talent into the Mixxx development team. For those not familiar with Mixxx, it’s software that allows DJs to create live beatmixes. This year, Mix…
By Moshe Looks, Google ResearchCross-posted with the Google Research blogTraditional machine learning systems work with relatively flat, uniform data representations, such as feature vectors, time-series, and probabilistic context-free grammars. Howeve…
By Matt Austern and Lawrence Crowl, GoogleIn late September, Google hosted the 44th meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee in San Francisco, California. Approximately 50 members from seven countries met six days non-stop to nail down details of the…
By William Fulton, SWIG administratorSWIG is a programmers tool for semi-automating the calls to C or C++ code from almost any other programming language. The idea is to feed C/C++ header files into SWIG and SWIG then generates the ‘glue’ code so that …
By Ben Goertzel, PhD, Director of Research, SIAIThis summer OpenCog was chosen by Google to participate in the Google Summer of Code™ project: Google funded 11 students from around the world to work under the supervision of experienced mentors associ…