Many Open Source projects grow too large for free services such as Google Code Project Hosting and SourceForge.net, or simply have infrastructure needs that cannot be met by those services. Where can projects turn if they need a stable hosting environm…
Celebrating Software Free Day at Atlanta Linux Fest? Should you happen to find yourself in Georgia’s capital this Saturday, please stop in hear our very own Ellen Ko deliver a talk on Endless Summer: Create Your Own Program Based on Google Summer of Co…
Using CSS sprites makes web pages faster, but they can take hours to create. Neophytes to this advanced performance optimization technique face the daunting challenge of trying to grasp the logic needed to convert their existing web page’s background i…
Clearly designed as a conference to start but certainly not finish the conversation, last week’s Gov 2.0 Summit assembled an impressive cast of presenters and interviewers. Key White House decision makers, government innovators and industry enthusiasts…
While many students might be spending their summers backpacking around Europe, working at an investment bank, or catching up on their studies, our Google Summer of Code™ 2009 students Udai Gupta and Johan Hilding were helping to transform techno…
What’s the best way to spend a summer week in Berlin? Writing a manual about Ogg Theora of course…at least that was the opinion of 6 dedicated souls brought together by FLOSS Manuals with the help of Google’s Open Source Team.The event is another in …
The sun has set on our fifth year of introducing college and university students to Free and Open Source software development, and what a year it’s been! Just under 2000 mentors and 1000 students began working together to improve the code bases of 150 …
The annual Linux 18th Anniversary Picnic happened last weekend at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, CA. It happens around the weekend following the Linux World Expo (now Open Source World) and generally in the same time frame as the anniversary …
On August 13th, 2009, starting at 6 PM a little more than 50 people trickled into our Zurich, Switzerland office to share thoughts and snacks about all things free as in freedom for the 8th edition of the Zurich Open Source Jam. By 7 PM, a great variet…
While GNU Generation isn’t the next Google Highly Open Participation Contest™ (GHOP), the two efforts have a lot in common. My name is Max Shinn and I am going into my junior year of high school. This summer, though, I’m interning with the Free S…
Yesterday evening, I was privileged to share a stage with OSCON Co-Chair, Allison Randal to present the 5th Annual Google O’Reilly Open Source Awards. We once again opened nominations to the Open Source world at large and we were pleased at the fantas…
OSCON has returned to the San Francisco Bay Area for 2009, and Googlers will once again be out in force to spread the joy of all things Google and Open Source. Please make sure to join us on Tuesday, July 21st for the conference opening ceremonies, whe…
The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit ended just a few days ago, and now everyone is back to work sun-tanned and/or sun-burnt, but loaded with new ideas. The idea behind this summit was to organize GUADEC and aKademy, the yearly GNOME and KDE conferences, on…
A few years ago, we released GWT, the Google Web Toolkit, which allows code to be written in Java using your favorite editors and then compiled into JavaScript that runs smoothly on host browsers. Today, we’re releasing some additional debug tools to …
Google’s Open Source Programs Office has been supporting the MetaBrainz Foundation for the last three years and has just let us know that they’ll be continuing their support in 2009. The MetaBrainz Foundation operates the MusicBrainz project, which can…