January 3rd, 2013 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
This is a guest post from one of this year’s Google Summer of Code Mentors (also a former student in the program).2012 Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit Group Photo- ~275 attendeesPicture taken by Robin Smidsrød, CC-BY-SA licenseOnce a year, open …
December 21st, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
We are at the halfway point of the Google Code-in 2012 contest and we wanted to share some exciting stats with you. The contest is designed to introduce 13-17 year old pre-university students to the world of open source software development. During the…
December 18th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
For the physics software development group at CERN, our second year of Google Summer of Code couldn’t have come at a better time. Motivated by CernVM’s awesome experience in 2011, our colleagues from the Geant4 and ROOT software projects joined us as…
December 6th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
The Crowdsourcing Biology team at the Scripps Research Institute participated in the Google Summer of Code for the first time this year. Five students contributed to efforts to harness the power of community intelligence to advance biomedical sci…
December 4th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Here at Google, we use Eclipse every day to build our external and internal products, as well as building and releasing Eclipse tools. We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting Eclipse Day at Googleplex on December 12th, 2012. Hosting this e…
November 30th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C/C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages.These so called ‘target languages’ vary enormously. The most popular being the scripting languages Python, Perl, Ru…
November 26th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
… and Go! The Google Code-in 2012 contest has officially started! If you are a 13-17 year old pre-university (high school) student interested in computer science who would like to learn more about open source software development while earning …
November 20th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Cross posted from the Official Google BlogEvery time you send a text, check a webpage or post a status update, you’re using open source software. The Internet is made of open source. But have you ever created any yourself? With the Google Code-in con…
November 16th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
This year the Wikimedia Foundation selected nine students to work on new features and specific improvements to the software for Google Summer of Code. The students were mentored by experienced developers who helped them become part of the development c…
November 12th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
We are thrilled to announce the 10 open source organizations that will mentor students for the Google Code-in 2012, a contest introducing 13-17 year old students to open source development. Each organization will design tasks for students to work on an…
November 7th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Mixxx is free and open source DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes. With millions of downloads yearly and a comprehensive set of professional features, Mixxx is driving increased competition in the DJ software industry. …
October 31st, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
ns-3 is a discrete-event network simulator, with a particular emphasis on network research and education. ns-3 aims to allow researchers to move effortlessly between simulations, testbeds, and live experiments. It is designed to offer a high degree of …
October 30th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog and the Politics and Elections blog)Every four years in the United States, people prepare to head to the polls and increasingly search for information about how to register to vote, w…
October 24th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
The Google San Francisco office hosted a talk by Edward Kmett called “Lenses, Folds, and Traversals” which was well attended by the local Bay Area Haskell Users group as well as Google employees on Thursday, October 18, 2012. Almost 100 people tu…
October 22nd, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
We are pleased to announce the open source release of Ashier, a utility that allows users to automate terminal interactions with templates.Have you ever returned from lunch, only to find that the program you started an hour ago had made no progress bec…