Earlier this month the Google Open Source Programs Office hosted the Grand Prize winners of the Google Code-in contest, a contest designed to introduce pre-university students (age 13-18) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source softwar…
It was a milestone that took over 50 years, and at last solar panel manufacturers can produce their modules for less than $1/Watt. Now, the renewable energy community is faced with the dilemma that the permitting and interconnection costs, i.e. the pap…
June and July are especially packed with conferences this year and Googlers are hitting the roads to organize, speak at and participate in conferences all over the world.Earlier in the month over the June 17-19 weekend, Google was pleased to host a gat…
This summer we are writing a series of posts featuring the new organizations participating in their first Google Summer of Code. This is our fourth installment where the organizations explain their project in more detail and discuss the tasks the stude…
NativeDriver is an implementation of the WebDriver API which drives the UI of a native application rather than a web application. I am happy to announce that the Android version is available for download and we are welcoming all users and contributors….
Earlier this month we were excited to host a joint meetup with the Bay Area visualization group and the Bay Area R user group at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View.Hadley Wickham from Rice University came and gave a talk on Interactive Graphics i…
This is the third in our series of posts this summer featuring some of the organizations participating in their first Google Summer of Code. The organizations explain their project and the tasks the students will be working on this summer.Atomic.Blue i…
Internationalization (often abbreviated i18n) is the process of making an application localizable for users in different locales, while localization (often abbreviated L10n) is the process of actually localizing an application for a particular locale. …
This is the second in our series of posts this summer highlighting a few of the organizations participating in their first Google Summer of Code. The organizations give a brief description of their project and the tasks the students will be working on …
Have you ever been in the process of creating a video and just needed that one perfect clip to make it pop? Maybe you were creating your own music video and needed an aerial video of Los Angeles at night to spice it up. Unless you had a helicopter, a p…
This year we are excited to have 50 organizations participating in their first Google Summer of Code. We asked each of these new organizations to contribute a short description of their project for a series of posts we’ll be running this summer, begi…
Today marks the first day of coding for the 7th year of the Google Summer of Code program. The program encourages university students to “Flip Bits, not Burgers” during their summer break. This year 1,115 students will spend the next 12 weeks writing c…
Google Summer of Code is truly a global program. For this year’s program we received 5,651 applications from 3,731 students in 97 countries.We accepted 1,115 students from 68 countries. The ten countries with the highest number of accepted students a…
Early last week, 41 mentors for this year’s Google Summer of Code program gathered at a restaurant in downtown San Francisco for a meet-and-greet dinner. As this is still the community bonding period for this year’s accepted Google Summer of Code s…
Despite the recent devastating floods in Australia, the open source community is converging on Brisbane this week for the annual linux.conf.au (LCA). The LCA team “encourages everyone to still come to Brisbane and support local business and the commu…