May 27th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Benjamin Lynn, Google Developer ProgramsGit and Subversion can work together in many ways. Previously, we showed how Git users can work with a project primarily managed by Subversion. In this post, we describe one way to handle the converse: Google …
May 27th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamYou’ve likely heard about Google I/O, our largest developer event ever, which kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco, California, USA. Attendees will be treated to more than 70 sessions on AJAX & JavaScript, APIs & Tool…
May 23rd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Petra Popluharova, Software Engineering TeamI was recently invited to give a keynote at the LinuxExpo – the largest central European Linux and Open Source Software conference that was recently held in Prague (Czech Republic). The event was well rec…
May 23rd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Joe Walnes, Software Engineering TeamLast week Google’s Open Source Team hosted the London Open Source Jam 8 (the 9th in the series – we started at zero, of course).The London Open Source Jam – worth writing home aboutThis event was started as an ex…
May 20th, 2008 | by Fitz | published in Google Open Source
By Brian Fitzpatrick, Google Developer ProgramsWe’re glad to see that our friends over at SourceForge have announced that their Community Choice Awards are open for nominations this year. In the past, the awards have been open to all projects hosted a…
May 20th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Benjamin Lynn, Google Developer ProgramsDo you often work offline? Wish you could make local commits that you can reorganize and upload later? Would you like to have your own copy of the entire history of the project which you can peruse at your lei…
May 19th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Chris Holmes, OpenGeoAs far as web browsers are concerned, our maps don’t change all that often, and rendering map images can be very time-consuming. Serving images, on the other hand, requires no computation and is trivial to implement. Google Maps…
May 14th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Jason Robbins, Open Source TeamIt’s an Internet world now, we’re all just living in it. The cumulation of many software projects used to be RTM: the point at which the team could “release to manufacturing”, meaning that someone burned a CD and put …
May 13th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLast weekend, the Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) gathered developers, users and designers representing all of the major free graphics applications like Blender, the GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Scribus and many more. The con…
May 12th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Cat Allman, Open Source TeamThere is lots going on in May, starting this week with Connectathon in San Jose, California, USA from Thursday, May 8th through Thursday, May 15th. Samba guy Jeremy Allison will be taking part Monday – Thursday in this …
May 9th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamSometimes you have a good week, other times a great week. This week has definitely been one of the latter. We spent Monday morning with some incredibly bright youngsters from the Watershed School in Colorado, all of…
May 8th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLast Monday, we brought you news on the Top 10 countries from which we’re welcoming this year’s Google Summer of Code™ students. Many thanks to everyone from the community for their suggestions about which pro…
May 7th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Jason Cooper, Google Developer ProgramsAs you’re reading this, pause for a moment and gaze briefly through the nearest window. It’s a large, fast-paced world out there, and it can be easy to overlook the problems that don’t affect us directly. It’s…
May 5th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWhen Brenda Wallace asked if we could help sponsor Wellington’s Girl Geek Dinner, we thought it sounded like a wonderful way to show the love to our Kiwi friends in Open Source. When Brian Logan, a fellow Wellington…
May 1st, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
Posted By Cat Allman, Google Open Source Team for Matthias Stuermer, Hackontest CoordinatorYou might have read the recent Hackontest announcement on Slashdot. We’ve received a great response, and already 25 open source projects and 50 feature requests …