Google Update Releases Update Controls
Whenever we build out new products and features at Google, we try to ensure that we provide users with two key components: transparency and control. About a month ago we released the Google Update source code to give users and developers transparency …
Spreading the Summer Love in Chicago
There are many ways to get the word out about Google Summer of Code™, and one of the most fun ways is the Google Summer of Code meetups that participants organize around the world. After a successful meetup last year for University of Chicago studen…
WebDriver is a clean, fast framework for automated testing of webapps. Why is it needed? And what problems does it solve that existing frameworks don’t address?For example, Selenium, a popular and well established testing framework is a wonderful tool …
BSDCan 2009, an annual BSD conference at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada will be held this year on May 8th and 9th, 2009. The Open Source Team’s Leslie Hawthorn and Cat Allman will be there to mingle with the Open Source community and pres…
Inspired by Google Summer of Code™, the OpenUsability Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open Source Software…
"Common Sense" at Open Everything, NYC
Google’s Leslie Hawthorn is a featured speaker at the upcoming Open Everything NYC 2009 conference this Saturday. The conference is at the UNICEF House in New York, USA and she’ll be talking about Common Sense. “The talk explores some areas in which t…
Writing Talking Applications for Android
Toward the end of last year, we released an Android binding to eSpeak, an Open Source Text To Speech (TTS) engine that provides support for a large number of languages. Since then, we have seen significant interest among the developer community. Many h…
A Beginner’s Guide to Google Summer of Code™
Adam Rakowski, Polish Society of Electrical Engineers (SEP) student and Google Summer of Code 2008 student working on Tux4Kids, organized a meeting on March 23rd, 2009 to present “A Beginners Guide to Google Summer of Code.” The meeting was held in t…
India
This year Google Summer of Code had 610 students apply from India, the second highest number of applicants after the United States. The Google Summer of Code community in India has always been active, and this may be part of the reason India’s applic…
More Summer Love at Cal State L.A.
In order to help spread the word about Google Summer of Code™, former students and mentors have been holding info sessions to promote the program across campuses around the world. Grady Laksmono from California State University, Los Angeles recentl…
Project Eyes-Free aims to enable fluent eyes-free use of mobile devices running Android. Target uses range from eyes-busy environments like driving, to use by people who are unwilling or unable to look at the visual display. You can get a high-leve…
Dmitri Gaskin speaking at DrupalCon DC, photo by kcolwellHello World! I’m Dmitri Gaskin, I’m 13 years old, and a Drupal Developer. I was a mentor for the Google Highly Open Participation™ Contest in late 2007 (I was too young to actually participate …
By Kat Momoi, Software Engineer and Emoji Encoding Project member & Takeshi Kishimoto, Gmail Product ManagerLast November Markus Scherer wrote about Google’s efforts to encode Emoji (絵文字), or “picture characters,” the graphical versions of …
Thandy: Secure Update for Tor
By Nick Mathewson, The Tor ProjectLong ago, Tor was a single executable that you could usefully run on its own. Over time, we added a relatively long list of recommended dependencies, including Privoxy to avoid DNS leaks, Vidalia for a user interface, …
Post by T.V. Raman, Research ScientistI have been a member of the W3C Forms Working Group since its inception in early 2000, and it gave me great pleasure to be able to host the group’s recent three day face to face meeting on the Google campus Februa…