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…