April 28th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLast week, we excitedly announced that we’d accepted over 1100 students into Google Summer of Code™ 2008. Now that we’ve had some time to get everything in order for this new crop of students, we’re happy to br…
April 25th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Cat Allman, Open Source TeamOur own Fernanda Weiden, Systems Administrator, Load Balancer Jedi, Network Sniffer, and all around Free and Open Source Software Champion, was kind enough to send us her thoughts on fisl 2008, the premier Brazilian Free…
April 25th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By J-P Stacey, Oxford GeekThe Jericho Tavern, regular venue for the Oxford Geek Nights (OGN), has a long, spacious upstairs room. You’d think it’d be more than big enough for a local tech event, but long before the first keynote speaker of the sixt…
April 21st, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe’ve been running Google Summer of Code™ for four years now, and each year gets better and better. Competition was fierce for 2008, as we received nearly 7,100 applications, almost 1,000 more than last year. We …
April 18th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Cat Allman, Open Source TeamIt’s been a busy couple of weeks for the Open Source team as the first phase of “Conference Season” starts heating up. We have reports on three events from Googler participants.Our very own Brian “Fitz” Fitzpatrick write…
April 17th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamFrom time to time, Google’s Open Source Team sponsors student travel to conferences. Dongmei Liu and Zhou Zhouyi, two of our Google Summer of Code&trade Graduates, recently attended AsiaBSDCon 2008 and were kind eno…
April 17th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamThe good news from the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP) keeps on coming. This week, Andre Klapper, one of GNOME’s mentors for GHOP, wrote in to tell us about three additional outstanding contributors. …
April 15th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamGoogle’s Open Source Team and O’Reilly Media are once again teaming up to present five Open Sourcerers with awards at OSCON 2008. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to nominate recipients, so check out our Hall of F…
April 15th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Michael Weiss-Malik, KML Product ManagerWe’ve got great news for you from the geo world: KML, originally created as a file format for overlaying content in Google Earth, is now an international standard. The Open Geospatial Consortium has announced …
April 10th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamEarlier this year, we concluded the first Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP), our pilot initiative to get pre-university students involved in Open Source development. Given how difficult it was for the p…
April 8th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Alastair Maw, TV Ads Engineering TeamApache Wicket is a Java component-based web framework, with a fast-growing community surrounding it. Google recently hosted the Apache Wicket London Users Group for the second time at our offices in the heart of…
April 7th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe’ve just finished taking applications for Google Summer of Code™ 2008, and we’re pleased to say that our mentors will be kept quite busy reviewing them for the next two weeks. We received more than 7,000 applica…
April 4th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Ian Lance Taylor, Systems Software TeamI submitted my first patch to the GNU linker in 1992. In 1993 I knew enough about its shortcomings, and started to argue that we should rewrite it from scratch. In 2006, just 13 years later, and now working a…
April 1st, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Allison Randal, O’Reilly Media Early in March, Google’s Open Source Team hosted a one-day concurrency summit organized by O’Reilly Media. The participants represented a broad spectrum of interests and perspectives, from fast-paced startups, to a…
March 31st, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamThis year, we experimented with the Google Summer of Code&trade program timeline, providing one week for students to discuss project ideas with their mentors and then a single week to submit applications. The good n…