Next week, several members of the Open Source Programs office will be in Portland, OR for the second Open Source Bridge conference which takes place over four days, June 1-4.Carol Smith will be giving a talk called Foundations, Non-profits, and Open So…
The Android development tools provide developers with a host of tools for creating fun, useful and compelling Android applications. Included in this tool-set are various testing tools that make it easier to ensure the quality of the applications. One…
CloudCourse: An Enterprise Application in the Cloud
At Google we have experts on everything from Python to penguins. However, connecting our expert teachers to eager students around the globe can be a complicated business. To that end, we are excited to release our new internal learning platform, Cloud…
Manage cloud storage from the command line with GSUtil
GSUtil is a command-line tool that helps developers manage their cloud storage. The tool makes it very easy to explore various features of Google Storage for Developers – in just a few minutes, you can learn how to create a storage bucket, upload objec…
Introducing the Workspace Mechanic for Eclipse
Hi Internet! I’m Robert Konigsberg, and I’ve spent the last four years working on a team that writes Eclipse plug-ins for our coworkers here at Google. I’m happy to announce that we’re open sourcing one of the tools our colleagues use every d…
Google I/O 2010
Google I/O, Google’s largest annual developer conference, will take place on May 19-20 at Moscone West San Francisco, and nearly all of the tracks feature open sourced products — Android, GWT, Chrome, Wave and Google APIs. We are very excited about…
Don’t Copy This Code
Normally, when we release source code we’re hoping that other people will build on it and improve it. Today’s release of Jarlsberg, a small yet full-featured microblogging application, is a code release of a different sort entirely.Jarlsberg has one fe…
Shawn Pearce on FLOSS Weekly
Recently, the Google Open Source Programs Office’s Shawn Pearce appeared on FLOSS Weekly for the show’s 118th episode. FLOSS Weekly was started by Leo Laporte and Open Source Programs Manager Chris DiBona in 2006, and in 2009 it was nominated for …
At KDE, we benefit each year from new contributions and contributors thanks to Google Summer of Code™. However, we always have more great proposals from keen students than our allocation of projects from Google. Season of KDE (SoK) was set up in 20…
Traditional Chinese IME on Android is a 20% IME project initiated in Google’s Taipei office and it is now open sourced on Google Code. It includes Zhuyin and Cangjie, two dominant input methods for Traditional Chinese users.This project is based on …
Growing Up with Samba
Next month Samba eXPerience 2010, the ninth international Samba conference for users and developers, will be held in Göttingen, Germany from May 3rd – 7th. Jeremy Allison, who works in the Google Open Source Programs Office, will be at the conference…
SCaLE, Google, and Open Source
Photo Credit: Solange MaffiMy name is Bruno Albuquerque, and I’m both a Googler and an open source contributor. This past February I left Brazil and went to Los Angeles to attend the 8th edition of the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 8x). SC…
Photo credit: Dj Walker-MorganOn Thursday the 1st of April we held the Google London Open Source Jam 0×10 (that is, the 17th). The Jams are informal meet-ups where people can present 5 minute lightning talks on all things open source-y, as well as netw…
Google at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
This week several Googlers will be speaking at the the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, CA. This event is an “invitation-only summit gathering core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors a…
Interesting times for Video on the Web
If I told you that Google had helped fund an ARM code optimised version of the Theora video codec, most people’s reaction would be immediately to skip forward to the next blog entry. Audio and video codecs are the classic example of things that no o…