Looking for new contributors and fresh perspectives for your open source software project? Through the Google Summer of Code™ program, we fund students worldwide to work with mentors from the FLOSS community on a three month coding project. Over the …
The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (SRVC) is a robot scavenger hunt competition that is designed to push the state of the art in image understanding and automatic acquisition of knowledge from large unstructured databases of images (such as those gene…
The yearly MusicBrainz summit serves an important function in building our community: we talk about issues facing MusicBrainz and we plan the road map for MusicBrainz projects. The summits are usually scheduled to allow as many people to attend as poss…
On the 3rd of December we held the latest (and greatest) Google London Open Source Jam at our offices near Victoria. The Jam is a way to get like-minded Open Source contributors and users together and give them a chance to give a 5 minute talk on somet…
The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the “Grid,” which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional…
Slow DNS servers can make for a terrible web browsing experience, but knowing which one to use isn’t easy. namebench is a new open source tool that helps to take the guess-work out of the DNS server selection process. namebench benchmarks available DNS…
Earlier this year, we blogged about project Eyes-Free — a collection of Android applications that enable efficient eyes-free interaction with your mobile phone. Since then, one of the questions we have received most often is about a complete access …
On Saturday, October 10, the Front Range Pythoneers had a Python “unconference” at the Google facilities in Boulder, Colorado, USA. An “Unconference” is a conference organized around the principles ofopen space technologies, which tries to provide ma…
We’ve just released Stressful Application Test (or stressapptest), a hardware test used here at Google to test a large number of components in a machine. The test tries to maximize random traffic to memory from processor and disks with the intent of cr…
Can you spot the bug in the following piece of Java code?/** Maintains a list of names. */public class NameManager { private List
We at the MoinMoin Wiki software development team had a wonderful time with our participation in Google Summer of Code™ 2009. We greatly enjoyed collaborating with our students, hacking Python and Javascript code for the wiki engine. Thanks to Go…
Ed. Note: You may recall that last week we published the first installment of Emil Ivov’s report on SIP Communicator’s participation in Google Summer of Code™. This week, Emil shares more of the project’s 2009 success stories and lessons learned by t…
Google Summer of Code™ 2009 (GSoC) was filled with fresh faces and exciting new projects for The Perl Foundation (TPF). As I write this, we are currently in the final stage of the summer where students submit evidence of their work in a zip/tar.gz fi…
Keeping informed in a fast moving world can be a challenge. What if you could use those moments when your body is busy but your mind is idle to catch up on the news? That’s how I decided that I would get my Android phone to read the news to me, out lou…
So, here we are: we have just completed our third Google Summer of Code™. Despite the nostalgia that has settled in after the end of the summer, we are all feeling very, very happy about how things went this year. While observing my fellow mentors, w…