PyPy is a reimplementation of Python in Python, using advanced techniques to try to attain better performance than CPython. Many years of hard work have finally paid off. Our speed results often beat CPython, ranging from being slightly slower, to spee…
Google Summer of Code alums John Britton and Robin Anil at Google’s Bangalore officeMy name is John Britton, and in 2008 I was a participant in the Google Summer of Code™ program where I worked on a web based localization server for Gallery. In addit…
OGRE’s Latest Release Features Google Summer of Code Projects
OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilising hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. OGRE has taken part…
The student application period for Google Summer of Code™ opened yesterday and many students are wondering if they should apply. We encourage students of all backgrounds to apply, as long as they meet our eligibility requirements, which state that i…
Living La Vida LibrePlanet
The LibrePlanet Conference will be held next week, March 19th-21st, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Google Open Source Programs Office’s Leslie Hawthorn will be participating in the lively discussions about software that the user can share, modify an…
Make Contact with Google at SIGCSE 2010
Next week several Googlers will be attending and presenting at the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2010). From March 10-13, Leslie Hawthorn and Cat Allman from the Open Source Programs Office will be in Milwaukee, WI…
RTEMS and Google Summer of Code 2009
The RTEMS Project had 6 students accepted for Google Summer of Code™ 2009, with one additional student that was funded through the donation that Google gives to mentoring organizations in conjunction with a donation from OAR Corporation. We were ext…
For the past two months, small teams of reporters and editors from the New York Times and Washington Post have been experimenting with Living Stories, a new format for covering news on the web. Using this technology platform, we can capture hundreds of…
TYPO3’s first Google Summer of Code
TYPO3 mentor Ingo Renner and Google Summer of Code Program Manager Leslie HawthornPhoto by Olivier DobberkauTYPO3 is an enterprise class Content Management System with a 10 year history, originating in Denmark and enjoying popularity in Europe and gai…
Out with the old, in with the new!
Apache members, committers and contributors descend on the Google headquarters in Mountain View, enjoying a rare chance to get together face-to-face, and getting some really great work done!January 25th and 26th saw the oldest project at the Apache Sof…
Camping Out with KDE
This year, the second annual Camp KDE was held from January 15-22nd. It was graciously hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California in San Diego. Camp KDE is the young North American counterpart to Akade…
The last few years have been an exciting time for dynamic language implementations. The latest generation of JavaScript engines – Mozilla TraceMonkey, WebKit SquirrelFish Extreme, and Google’s own V8 – are all based on just-in-time (JIT) compilatio…
This year’s linux.conf.au is in Wellington, New Zealand. It’s starting this weekend, Sunday January 17th, and runs all week, through Saturday, January 23rd. We’ll have members of the Open Source Team at the conference all week. And we’re especially …
Photo Credit: John ‘Warthog9′ HawleyThis past weekend, approximately 250 Open Source developers from around the world gathered at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA for the fourth Google Summer of Code™ Mentor Summit. These developers who me…
I’m no stranger to EuroBSDCon. After attending several very successful conferences in the US, three FreeBSD contributors and I decided that Europe needed a BSD conference too. In November 2001 we were proud to host 160 or so delegates in the …