On July 2nd, 2009 about 50 people gathered in our Belo Horizonte, Brazil office for the second edition of the Open Source Jam Brazil. Guests were welcomed with an aperitif of snacks and drinks. At about 19:00 we started a round of short talks on variou…
We at Google have been looking at remote desktop technologies for quite a while. The good old X Window system can be used over the network, but it has issues with network latency and bandwidth. Neatx remedies some of these issues.In 2003, NoMachine re…
Here in Google’s shiny new Sydney office, we recently hosted the first hackfest for OpenAustralia.org. OpenAustralia takes the data from Australia’s record of Federal Parliament speeches, the Australian Hansard, and makes it easy for people to follow t…
Fresh on the heels from speaking at Google Developer Day in Beijing and Tokyo, Chris DiBona will be heading to the SouthEast LinuxFest. This new conference promises to provide a welcoming environment for novice users of Open Source software, with a lit…
The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledg…
The Free Network project is the community that creates and maintains Freenet, free software that allows you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship by means of a decentralized, anonymous network. Since version 0….
As discussed in our Google Code Blog post on HTML5 for Gmail Mobile, Google’s new version of Gmail for iPhone and Android-powered devices uses the Web Storage Portability Layer (WSPL) to let the same database code run on browsers that provide either Ge…
You may recall that we recently asked for help from some early testers of Mercurial on Project Hosting on Google Code. As of today, all of our Project Hosting users can make use of this added functionality. For full details, check out the Google Co…
Love our Open Source project hosting service but wish it supported distributed version control? Pine no longer! You can find full details about Mercurial support for hosted projects on the Google Code Blog.For those of you who are Git fans, you may wan…
The Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards are back again for 2009! These awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for…
Students in 70 countries are now celebrating their acceptance in to the Google Summer of Code 2009 program! For our fifth year running the program, we’ve paired 1,000 students with mentors in more than 65 countries with more than 150 Free and Open…
After a somewhat longer than usual hiatus, the Google London Open Source Jam was back to its usual Thursday night. With the G-20 in town, and the finances of the world a hot topic, what better to talk about than “Open Source – On a Budget”? We had a go…
Secrets for Android is an application to securely store and manage passwords and secrets on your Android powered phone. It uses techniques like strong encryption and auto-logout to help ensure that your secrets remain safe, assuming you’ve chosen a goo…
Our mentors for Google Summer of Code 2009 have a busy two weeks ahead of them. As of last Friday’s student application deadline, we received nearly 5,900 proposals from just under 3,500 student applicants. Folks who have followed the program over the …
The POP and IMAP Troubleshooter is a wizard-like application that people can use to diagnose and repair problems when connecting to email service providers. It reads the configuration files of several email clients, checks them for appropriate settin…