March 17th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe’ve just announced the list of accepted mentoring organizations for Google Summer of Code™ 2008, and you can check out more details for each of them on the program home page. After reviewing over 500 applications…
March 17th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Bob Lee, Google Guice TeamWe’d like to thank the Google Guice developers and users who helped jolt the industry in 2007. Dr. Dobb’s honored Guice with the 18th annual Jolt Award in the Libraries, Frameworks and Components category:The Jolt Awards re…
March 15th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Jason Robbins, Open Source TeamIn one Dilbert cartoon, Dogbert confronts a long-winded technology “guru” by showing him some actual code, which blows him away. It’s funny because it’s true: some long, abstract discussions can turn into short, concr…
March 14th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamPyCon 2008 has already kicked off in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A, and we have two Googler Open Sourcerers giving keynote addresses at the conference: Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, and the Open Source Team’s v…
March 12th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Brad Neuberg, Dojo Contributor and Google Gears Developer AdvocateThe Dojo project is a leading open source Ajax framework for developing advanced web applications in JavaScript. Dojo consists of many modules for powerful cross-browser development, …
March 6th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Joshua Brien, Systems AdministratorJoomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. I have been working with Joomla…
March 5th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Ben Collins-Sussman, Open Source TeamOver in the google-code-hosting discussion group, we see a lot of users asking us to ‘reset’ their Subversion repositories back to an empty revision 0, tossing away all data and history. Sometimes there are good …
March 4th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsHave you ever been asked “but what about a Hebrew version?” Lindsey Simon has, so he decided to write a tool that would help with the task.CSSJanus is CSS parser utility designed to aid the conversion of a websi…
March 3rd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamReady to find the best and brightest students to contribute to your open source software project this summer? The Google Summer of Code™ 2008 program funds students worldwide, pairing them with mentors from the FLO…
February 29th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
Post by Cat Allman, Open Source TeamIf you’ve ever wanted to hear what we on the Open Source team have to say “live and in person”, you will get a chance next week at DrupalCon Boston ’08. This twice annual conclave of Drupal developers is being held …
February 28th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamYou may remember that we featured the Drupal project’s runner ups for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP) last week. This week, we’re delighted to showcase the accomplishments of some additional stud…
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…