February 27th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Brian Fitzpatrick, Open Source TeamIn the past year, we’ve seen a lot of enhancement requests from you in our issue tracker for project hosting, and we can tell which issues are the most important to people by sorting them according to the number of…
February 26th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Cat Allman, Google Open Source Team When I asked Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist and UC Berkeley professor for his elevator definition of “collective intelligence”, he replied, “People and computers collaborating.” In conjunction with our co…
February 25th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLately many folks have been asking us, “Are you going to hold Google Summer of Code again this year?” The answer is a resounding “Yes!” For full details on our program to introduce university students to open source…
February 22nd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Post by Manu Cornet, Software Engineering TeamThe first time I wrote a piece of code with the intention of making it open source was, like many other people, when I was still a student. As a project for a computer vision class, a classmate and I wro…
February 22nd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamAs we mentioned last week, many of the mentoring organizations participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest had a difficult time choosing their Grand Prize Winners. All of our projects had stellar p…
February 21st, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Jason Huggins, Jennifer Bevan and Simon Stewart, Software Engineering TeamSince the Google Test Automation Conference last year, it has been no secret that Google uses Selenium for functional testing of web applications. We’ve also constructed a Sel…
February 20th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team We recently hosted the Dojo Developer Day here at Google. Dojo is one of the leading open-source Ajax/JavaScript toolkits, and it was great getting to see many of the core Dojo contributors and users from around the…
February 15th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By J-P Stacey, Oxford GeekAs the January blues began to lift, web developers, designers, neophiles, hardware hackers and hardcore programmers all descended on a local Oxford pub last night for the first in 2008’s Oxford Geek Nights (OGNs). Thanks to …
February 15th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamHappy Valentine’s Day to all those celebrating it!The Open Source Team has hosted many community events over the past two years here at Google HQ. This past weekend, we were privileged to host our friends from the Pl…
February 14th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Dan Kegel, Software Engineering Team and Wine 1.0 Release ManagerAs you may know, Google uses Wine to implement Linux support for Picasa. Beyond that, Google has been supporting Wine in several other ways.Perhaps the biggest news is that we hired C…
February 13th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
Sanna Heiskanen, Project Manager – Finnish Summer CodeThe Finnish Summer Code 2007 project employed five university students for the summer. Google’s Open Source Team was one of the sponsors of the students’ projects. The Finnish Summer Code is organis…
February 12th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWhen we announced GHOP, we were excited to perform an experiment to see how many secondary schoolers would be interested in spending a few weeks contributing to open source development. We’re pleased to say that the…
February 8th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
Shane Coughlan, FTF Coordinator, Free Software Foundation EuropeMy name’s Shane Coughlan and I’m a coordinator at Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), the European sister of the United States based Free Software Foundation. The FSFE is involved in a…
February 7th, 2008 | by Fitz | published in Google Open Source
By Brian Fitzpatrick, Open Source Programs OfficeIt’s been about a year and a half since we launched project hosting on Google Code, and we’re now home to over 80,000 projects. From small two-person projects to projects with dozens of contributors, we…
February 6th, 2008 | by A Googler | published in Google Open Source
Posted by Chris DiBona, Open Source TeamThree years and some 320 posts ago, we launched the code.google.com blog with a post detailing (with too many exclamation points) that we had released some 4 programs kicking off what was to become a very popular…