By Benjamin Lynn, Google Developer ProgramsGit and Subversion can work together in many ways. Previously, we showed how Git users can work with a project primarily managed by Subversion. In this post, we describe one way to handle the converse: Google …
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamYou’ve likely heard about Google I/O, our largest developer event ever, which kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco, California, USA. Attendees will be treated to more than 70 sessions on AJAX & JavaScript, APIs & Tool…
By Petra Popluharova, Software Engineering TeamI was recently invited to give a keynote at the LinuxExpo – the largest central European Linux and Open Source Software conference that was recently held in Prague (Czech Republic). The event was well rec…
By Joe Walnes, Software Engineering TeamLast week Google’s Open Source Team hosted the London Open Source Jam 8 (the 9th in the series – we started at zero, of course).The London Open Source Jam – worth writing home aboutThis event was started as an ex…
By Benjamin Lynn, Google Developer ProgramsDo you often work offline? Wish you could make local commits that you can reorganize and upload later? Would you like to have your own copy of the entire history of the project which you can peruse at your lei…
By Chris Holmes, OpenGeoAs far as web browsers are concerned, our maps don’t change all that often, and rendering map images can be very time-consuming. Serving images, on the other hand, requires no computation and is trivial to implement. Google Maps…
By Jason Robbins, Open Source TeamIt’s an Internet world now, we’re all just living in it. The cumulation of many software projects used to be RTM: the point at which the team could “release to manufacturing”, meaning that someone burned a CD and put …
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLast weekend, the Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) gathered developers, users and designers representing all of the major free graphics applications like Blender, the GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Scribus and many more. The con…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamSometimes you have a good week, other times a great week. This week has definitely been one of the latter. We spent Monday morning with some incredibly bright youngsters from the Watershed School in Colorado, all of…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLast Monday, we brought you news on the Top 10 countries from which we’re welcoming this year’s Google Summer of Code™ students. Many thanks to everyone from the community for their suggestions about which pro…
By Jason Cooper, Google Developer ProgramsAs you’re reading this, pause for a moment and gaze briefly through the nearest window. It’s a large, fast-paced world out there, and it can be easy to overlook the problems that don’t affect us directly. It’s…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWhen Brenda Wallace asked if we could help sponsor Wellington’s Girl Geek Dinner, we thought it sounded like a wonderful way to show the love to our Kiwi friends in Open Source. When Brian Logan, a fellow Wellington…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamYou may recall that Charlie Gordon and Jimmy Berry were named two of Drupal’s runner ups for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP). What you may not know is that both of these gentleman are highly skill…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe’re always delighted when we can share news about students working to improve Free and Open Source Software. You may recall that we recently let you know about the results of Finnish Summer Code 2007. While we we…
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLast week, we excitedly announced that we’d accepted over 1100 students into Google Summer of Code™ 2008. Now that we’ve had some time to get everything in order for this new crop of students, we’re happy to br…