By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamTim Ansell, Google Summer of Code™ mentor and organization administrator for the Thousand Parsec project recently visited Google Mountain View, so we took the opportunity to sit down with him and catch up with him …
By Ellen Reitmayr, OpenUsabilityInspired by Google’s Summer of Code, the OpenUsability project – an initiative to bring more emphasis on usability to FLOSS development – offers a similar student programme: the Season of Usability. The program is aimed…
By by Juha Kärkkäinen, Visiting Researcher and Stefan Burkhardt, Software Engineering TeamToday we’ve released dcs-bwt, a C++ implementation of a data compressor based on the Burrows-Wheeler compression technique. The compressor is intended for exper…
By Michelle Murrain, Coordinator – Nonprofit Open Source InitiativeOn June 5, 2008, a new model of technology training was tried out. It was inspired by the “unconference” and “camp” models of technology conferences, and we called it an “untraining.” I…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamIf you have Open Source projects hosted on Google Code, you may have noticed that the SSL certificate changed for the googlecode.com domain. (The old certificate expired, and a new one was generated.) The Google Cod…
By Ben Collins-Sussman, Open Source TeamIf you have open source projects hosted on Google Code, you may have noticed that the SSL certificate changed for the googlecode.com domain. (The old certificate expired, and a new one was generated.) In particu…
By Borja Sotomayor, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago and Summer of Code MentorA few weeks ago, I was sitting around a table with the other three officers of the University of Chicago’s ACM student chapter, pondering what our “big event” for the qua…
By Grant Allen, Database Architecture TeamI was invited to talk at Open CeBIT in Sydney, Australia in May, and with the help of Chris DiBona and Leslie Hawthorn from Google’s Open Source Team, I delivered a presentation on “Google and Open Source,” com…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamFollowing a brief hiatus, we’re excited to announce the return of the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series. Please join us this Thursday, June 5th for Tim Ansell’s presentation “Gaming for Freedom.” Tim, F…
By Nik Clayton, Site Reliability Engineering TeamThe evening of Thursday May 22nd saw a crowd of contributors to Open Source projects gather at our offices in Switzerland for the 3rd Google Zurich Open Source Jam. These events are a way to meet up wit…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamCoding officially kicked off this week for all of our Google Summer of Code™ students, and in solidarity we’re kicking off this season of the Summer of Code podcasts. For Episode 16, we were joined by Titus Bro…
By Brenda Wallace, Catalyst IT and Geek Girl at LargeFor our May Girl Geek Coffee event in Wellington, New Zealand, participants had to solve a series of geeky puzzles to uncover the meeting location and receive some awesome loot that arrived from Goog…
By Greg Stein, Open Source TeamThe proliferation of Open Source licenses has been a known problem in the community for a few years. As the number of licenses grows, the possible combinations and interactions skyrocket. This makes it very difficult to m…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLike Summer of Code,The Haiku Code Drive is on.Our meme keeps spreading.We’re always excited to hear about Google Summer of Code™-like programs that help bring new code and new developers into the community. T…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamShould you find yourself in or around Berlin, Germany this week, be sure to stop in at LinuxTag 2008; all the the talks are free, there’s plenty of interesting content on offer and with ~9,000 attendees expected you…