Earlier this year at LibrePlanet 2012, Jeremy Allison caught up with Eben Moglen, head of the Software Freedom Law Center, to discuss the GPLv3 and the software project Freedom Box. Some highlights from the chat are listed below:What is the role of the…
Today, we announce the release of Interactive Spaces, a new API and runtime which allows developers to build interactive applications for physical spaces.Imagine walking into a room where the room recognizes where you are and responds based on your pos…
The code behind the Google doodle celebrating Alan Turing’s 100th birthday is now up on Google code. This animated logic puzzle game appeared on the Google homepage on June 23, 2012. If you missed it, you can still play it in the doodle archives.Our …
This week marks the halfway point of Google Summer of Code 2012. Both students and mentors will be submitting their midterm evaluations of one another through Friday, July 13th as indicated in our timeline. If you would like to read more about these mi…
As the temperatures rise in the northern hemisphere, Googlers from across the world will travel to the City of Roses, (Portland, Oregon) for OSCON, O’Reilly’s 14th annual Open Source convention held July 16-20 at the Oregon Convention Center. Over …
Earlier this month the Google Open Source Programs office welcomed eight* of the ten Grand Prize winners of the Google Code-in 2011 contest, a contest designed to introduce pre-university students (age 13-17) to the many ways they can contribute to ope…
Over the last few weeks we have been posting a collection of numbers on this year’s Google Summer of Code program. Our last post focused on the students that have participated in the program for multiple years. Now we’d like to look at the number o…
Google Summer of Code is in full swing and, besides all the coding, participants are also organizing meetups all over the world. These meetups allow Google Summer of Code students and mentors to meet in person and talk about the awesome contributions t…
When a country is unable to hold regular elections, how do people make their voices heard? That’s the challenge today in Somalia, which hasn’t had a permanent government since 1991. Somalia is in the middle of drafting a new provisional constitutio…
We have just completed our fourth year of the UCOSP (Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects) program and are already planning for a fifth. In this multi-university collaboration, students from across Canada – 13 schools this past year – participat…
In this year’s Google Summer of Code, there are 227 students from India participating in the program. In order to engage with this year’s Google Summer of Code students we are organizing a series of five meetups over the summer for the participants…
One of the most important goals of Google Summer of Code is to give students the experience of working in an open source environment and encourage them to stay involved even after the program concludes. A meaningful value to measure future commitment i…
As opposed to what? The *non*-technical conference for people who write operating systems in their free time? 
Anyway, it turned out mostly true. It was my first BSDCan and it was very focused on actually developing BSD systems, as opposed to …
A great thanks goes out to Google for hosting the 3rd Gerrit Code Review Hackathon earlier this month at their Mountain View campus, it was well attended and very productive. After quickly deciding to focus on adding a plugin framework to Gerrit during…
Today is the first day of coding for our 8th year of the Google Summer of Code program. This year 1,208 students will spend the next 12 weeks writing code for 180 different open source organizations. Students are working on a diverse group of projects …