Keeping software up to date is very important. Not only does it mean that users will always have all the cool new features that we work so hard to develop; it also means that any bugs or security vulnerabilities can get fixed very quickly, everywhere t…
By Ellen Ko, Open Source TeamA few weeks ago Mano Marks, a Geo Developer Advocate here at Google, informed the Open Source Programs Office of OpenStreetMap’s server upgrade fundraiser. Recognizing the good work that OpenStreetMap does by providing fre…
By Markus Scherer, Google Internationalization EngineeringEmoji (絵文字), or “picture characters”, the graphical versions of 
and its friends, are widely used and especially popular among Japanese cell phone users. Just last month, they became av…
By Diego Novillo, Google Compiler TeamTraditional compilation proceeds one file at a time. The compiler optimizes and generates code for each file in isolation and then the final executable is created by linking all the individual files together.This m…
By Jeff Bailey, Open Source TeamA couple weeks ago, we announced the Android open source release. Beside it, we silently released the tools that we wrote in order to make handling a large multi-repository project manageable in git. If you had a chanc…
By Jeff Bailey, Open Source TeamThis morning at 8 AM Pacific, I had the joy of participating in the Android release. If you’ve been following along, you’ll have seen how excited we’ve been – and are – to publish millions of lines of code to the outsid…
By Martin Harvan, 2008 Student for the SIP Communicator projectI was thrilled when I found out there would be a Google Summer of Code meetup in Krakow, not far from where I live. I not only wanted to visit Google’s offices and see behind the scenes of …
By Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Open Source TeamIf you’re passionate about web development and will be in or around Szeged, Hungary next week, be sure to stop by DrupalCon 2008. Nearly 500 developers will be descending on the city to discuss all things Drupal…
By Jeff Bailey, Open Source TeamHello from OSCON! This evening, we hosted the fourth annual Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards. I’m pleased to announce, for those who weren’t present, the winners of the 2008 awards:Best Community Amplifier: Chris Mes…