What is R? R is an open-source, statistical programming language that is increasingly becoming the lingua franca of modern data analysis. R developers have created over 4,000 packages to run in the R environment, including several dozen developed…
We are proud to announce the open source release of J2ObjC, a Google-authored translator that converts Java source code into Objective-C source for iPhone/iPad applications. J2ObjC enables Java code to be part of an iOS application’s build, as no editi…
For the seventh year in a row Crystal Space, an open source 3D Engine, has participated in the Google Summer of Code program. In previous years we had great success stories, but this year has exceeded all of our expectations. Below is a brief des…
In July, Research at Google ran a large open online course, Power Searching with Google, taught by search expert, Dan Russell. The course was successful, with 155,000 registered students. Through this experiment, we learned that Google tech…
For the fifth Friday this summer, organizations participating in their first Google Summer of Code discuss their projects and some highlights from their students’ work.The City of Bloomington is a strong supporter of community source, open source, op…
Google Summer of Code can be the most interesting, challenging and at times frustrating thing you have ever done. The most important thing that I learned while applying was that it is not about how much you know, but more about how much you are wi…
We are proud to release Wicked Good XPath, a Google-authored pure JavaScript implementation of the DOM Level 3 XPath specification. We believe it to be the fastest XPath implementation available in JavaScript.To use Wicked Good XPath, simply download t…
For the fourth installment of our series of posts highlighting new organizations participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code we have three organization administrators from the Open Lighting Project, Monkey and SimpleCV discuss their projects a…
We are pleased to announce the conclusion of another successful Google Summer of Code, our program designed to introduce university students from around the world to open source development.In late May, 1,212 university students from 69 countries began…
For our third post in the summer series highlighting new organizations participating in Google Summer of Code 2012, three organization administrators describe their student projects below.We have all watched with excitement as Google unfolded the Googl…
This is our second post in our summer series highlighting new organizations participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code. Three of the organization administrators give a brief description of their projects below.Ankur.org.in promotes local…
During LibrePlanet 2012, Jeremy Allison had some quality Geek Time with Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. Some highlights from their chat can be found below. Jeremy asks Karen to describe her role at the GNOME Foundation and wh…
This summer has been an exciting one for the Google Summer of Code. We had 180 organizations participating this year, 45 of which were participating for the first time in the program. In May, 1212 students, including students from Nepal and Mauritius, …
As the 8th Google Summer of Code comes to a close we wanted to introduce some of the 45 new organizations that are participating in this year’s program. Three of the organizations give a brief description of their projects below.Benetech creates…
Leak finder for JavaScript helps web application developers find memory leaks in their JavaScript programs.In garbage-collected languages, such as JavaScript, you cannot have traditional memory leaks by forgetting to free memory: when all references to…