How can corporations support open source maintainers? Beyond direct sponsorship, what creative funding models actually help you sustain your work? Let's discuss.
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⚡ We've created the first vectorized Quicksort; an #opensource code that:
- Sorts arrays of numbers ~10 x as fast as C++ std:sort
- Outperforms state-of-the-art specific algorithms
- Is portable across all modern CPU architectures
↓ opensource.googleblog.com/20…
🎉 Google Summer of Code is coming back for 2023!
New updates include:
☀ Increased flexibility in project lengths
☀ Choice of project time commitment
☀ Eligibility for students AND beginners in OSS development
Learn more → goo.gle/3TtdNhj
Introducing OpenCensus, a vendor-neutral open source version of Census, the library we use internally for metrics collection and tracing. Made especially for microservices-based architectures. goo.gl/FJbM4c
☀️📝 Google Summer of Code Contributor applications are OPEN!
If you are a Student or a beginner in open source software development and 18+ years old, we hope you will apply, and celebrate our 20th anniversary with us.
Apply by April 2 👉 goo.gle/3Pqr22Z
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📣 Kubernetes users, we have exciting news for you!
We launched our new Learn Kubernetes with Google website, complete with live events, on-demand technical explanations, and many resources.
Details 👉 goo.gle/3tGjCxA
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✨ Building open models responsibly in the era of Gemini.
We're deepening our commitment to open technology with the release of our Gemma family of open models.
Check out the blog for full details ➡️ goo.gle/3UJ3Gcz
Announcing Season of Docs, a new program that connects technical writers with open source projects!
We hope Season of Docs will help technical writers get into developer documentation, while also helping open source projects improve their docs. opensource.googleblog.com/20…
☀️ Google Summer of Code is even better in 2022!
✅ All #OpenSource newcomers are welcome
✅ Supporting medium and large sized projects
✅ Allowing project deadline extensions up to 22 weeks
🎉 Apply or become a contributor ➡️ goo.gle/3nSP08F
🤝 Google is joining the Rust Foundation!
We are excited to announce our membership, where we can work with the community on interoperability with C++, coordinating security reviews, decreasing the costs of crate updates, and more.
Learn more ↓ goo.gle/3a2CT2U
🎉 We're excited to announce that Android has added support for RISC-V 👉 goo.gle/3QDaYfl
RISC-V is an open standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) enabling a new era of processor innovation through open collaboration.
Google and Samsung are joining forces to bring you
🔊 Eclipsa Audio.
This open source spatial audio format fits into various workflows, and Eclipsa Audio files can be created by anyone using freely available tools: goo.gle/41j1MRl
What's next? ⬇️
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🥁 We have an announcement to make! 🥁
We are pleased to welcome 202 open source projects as our Google Summer of Code 2021 mentoring organizations, including 31 first-time organizations.
Read and see how to get involved ↓ goo.gle/3rwkPEJ
We've open sourced ClusterFuzz, the software behind OSS-Fuzz, a continuous fuzzing service we offer for free to open source projects.
OSS-Fuzz has uncovered 11,000+ bugs in over 160 projects so far. Now anyone can integrate fuzzing into their workflow! opensource.googleblog.com/20…
Ready, set, go! We are now accepting applications from students who want to participate in Google Summer of Code 2019.
This annual program, now in its 15th year, connects university students with mentors who help them work on open source projects. opensource.googleblog.com/20…
To enable the next phase of community-driven innovation in Knative, we’ve submitted Knative to the @CloudNativeFdn (CNCF) for consideration as an incubating project.🔧
The goal: to donate the Knative trademark, IP, and code.
Learn more → goo.gle/3G25J0Q
Open sourcing the silicon design makes it more transparent, trustworthy, and ultimately, secure. Today, along with our partners, we are excited to announce #OpenTitan - the first open source silicon root of trust (RoT) project. Get involved today!
opensource.googleblog.com/20…
🗣 Lyra is now being open sourced.
This release allows developers to power their communications apps and take Lyra in powerful new directions by providing the tools needed to encode and decode audio.
Full details ↓ goo.gle/31QjtcT
Tekton, a powerful and flexible open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems, released its Beta, creating higher levels of stability and bringing more trust between the users and the features.
goo.gle/TektonBeta
Introducing arXiv LaTeX cleaner, an open source tool to make it safer and easier to open source research papers. The tool scrubs LaTeX code, deletes, and resizes images.
We hope taking the pain out of the process encourages more to embrace open access! goo.gl/MXvcBP
We are delighted to announce the formation of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, a vendor-neutral home for CI/CD projects including Tekton, Jenkins, Jenkins X, and Spinnaker. opensource.googleblog.com/20…
🤔 Is it possible to run a service on #Kubernetes without bundling a #Linux distribution userland with every binary?
Introducing: Ephemeral containers - a new type of container that are part of the Kubernetes core API!
Check it out → goo.gle/3fD86Mc
Ready, Set, JuMP! 🪂
Miles Lubin, award winning math scholar and @Google researcher, shares the incredible journey of JuMP- an #OpenSource mathematical software designed to solve optimization problems.🏆
Read here ➡️ goo.gle/3lPqxkQ
☁🤗 Google Cloud and @huggingface teamed up for a community sprint!
Participants explored the capabilities of controlling Stable Diffusion by building open source applications with JAX and Diffusers, resulting in 26 incredible projects.
Take a look → goo.gle/462qZ4g
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We're open sourcing GIF for CLI to celebrate GIF's 31st birthday 🎉 This command line tool converts GIFs and short videos into colorful animated ASCII art.
Give it a try: spruce up your MOTD and share screen captures here on Twitter with #GIFforCLI! opensource.googleblog.com/20…
🤩 GSoC '21 results are here 🤩
The Google Summer of Code program, focused on bringing more student developers into #opensource for 10 weeks, concluded yesterday and the numbers on the final mentor evaluations of the students are in!
Read all about it → goo.gle/2WAXJCo
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🟩 Are you a #Developer new to open source?
We've compiled a list of ways to increase your chances of being selected as a 2022 Google Summer of code Contributor.
🟨 Get application tips and learn more about the program.
👉 goo.gle/3Mzmy7s
Announcing Git protocol version 2, a major update which removes one of the most inefficient parts of the protocol and fixes an extensibility bottleneck, unblocking the path to more wire protocol improvements in the future. opensource.googleblog.com/20…
Google Summer of Code is in its 16th year and the GSoC 2020 mentoring organizations and projects and have been selected! If you're a student interested in participating this year, make sure to take a look at the tips on our blog.
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FuzzBench, a fully automated, open source, free service for evaluating fuzzers, makes it painless to rigorously evaluate and easily adopt fuzzing research. Be sure to check out the FuzzBench GitHub repo!
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How do neural networks do what they do? Today we're open sourcing Lucid, a neural network visualization library building on the work of DeepDream, along with Jupyter notebooks so you can easily reproduce and adapt the visualizations in the article. goo.gl/QDQ4zM
☀️🎉 Google Summer of Code is back for its 20th year!
Over the past 19 years we've welcomed over 19,000 new contributors, and 19,000 mentors from over 800 organizations. We can't wait to welcome more this upcoming year.
See what's new in 2024 → goo.gle/478M90I
We partnered with Binomial to open source Basis Universal - a single texture format making it easier to optimize your application for size, speed and platform independence. opensource.googleblog.com/20…
We've selected 207 open source projects to participate in Google Summer of Code 2019!
University students can apply to work on these projects starting March 25. Accepted students are paired with mentors and paid a stipend. goo.gl/Qc8CqM
☀ Google Summer of Code contributor applications are OPEN!
Students and open source beginners 18 years and older are welcome to apply during the 3/20-4/4 registration period.
Apply today → goo.gle/3Z2t8YM
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Over 1,200 students from around the world will get to take part in Google’s annual GSoC program, dedicated to growing the open source community! @gsoc opensource.googleblog.com/20…
🎉 We’re pleased to announce the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Contributors for 2022!
For the next few weeks our GSoC 2022 Contributors will be learning the language and tools they will need to successfully complete their projects. → goo.gle/3wFZ6Oq
Build simple, reliable, and efficient software with @golang!
Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines.
Ready, set, Go explore → goo.gle/3V1w46X
We’re excited to announce Pigweed, an open source collection of embedded-targeted libraries, built to enable faster and more reliable development on 32-bit microcontrollers.
goo.gle/Pigweed
📢 Google Open Source Live launches on Sep 3! Our first event focuses on leadership, contributors and sustainability. Join us each month to meet Googlers working in #OpenSource. Sign up and learn more at goo.gle/OSL✨ #GoogleOSLive
Developers often use open source code that originates outside their organization. Since security is always top of mind, we’re happy to announce that Google is joining the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)!
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Open source is people, as @sarahnovotny said, and it's easy to forget to express gratitude amid the rush to get things done. Who are you grateful for in open source? A maintainer, friend, or mentor? Let us know and consider sending them a @happinesspacket!
#Fuchsia is expanding its open source model to welcome public contributions, an issue tracker, new mailing lists, a technical roadmap, and governance model.
Read here ↓ goo.gle/3qAOJrs
📝🎉 Google Season of Docs is back for 2023!
1️⃣ How does it work?
2️⃣ When should I apply?
3️⃣ What is a project page?
4️⃣ When should I reach out to other organizations?
Check out the blog for all this and more → goo.gle/3IZUnz0
☀ The 2023 Google Summer of Code mentor organizations have been selected!
This year, we are excited to announce that 172 open source projects have been selected, including 18 new organizations.
Full details → goo.gle/3Ks732f
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If you’re a university student and want to sharpen your software development skills while doing good for the open source community, check out Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020! This will be our 16th year of GSoC!
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🤩📝 Student applications for Google Summer of Code 2021 are now open!
Students will focus on a 175-hour project over a 10-week online coding period and receive stipends based on the successful completion of their project milestones.
📬 Apply today ↓ goo.gle/3w9M3E1
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2019! This will be the 15th year of our program that connects university students around the world with mentors to spend a season contributing to open source software. opensource.googleblog.com/20…
🎉 We are proud to present Logica, a novel open source Logic Programming language that compiles to SQL and runs on Google BigQuery.
Learn about the benefits ↓ goo.gle/3dVD2WJ
📆 Save the date, Android Day is coming!
Join us February 2nd at 9:00am PT to learn Crosvm, extending the open source KVM hypervisor for Android and more.
Watch on #GoogleOSLive → goo.gle/AndroidDay_23
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Need to stream, play, encode, or do just about anything else with a piece of content? 💻
@FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework that can work with pretty much anything that humans and machines have created, and is highly portable.
Explore → goo.gle/3QcVoak
Google Summer of Code is officially open for business! If your organization is interested in participating in GSoC 2020, applications are open starting today through Feb. 5th!
opensource.googleblog.com/20…
📸 Introducing Jpegli!
Jpegli is an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility while offering enhanced capabilities and a 35% compression ratio improvement at high quality compression settings.
Learn more 👉 goo.gle/3PNN8Nd
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🤩 Introducing the participating organizations for Season of Docs 2021!
View the list of participating organizations, and see how you can get involved as a technical writer ↓ goo.gle/3wZz8oD
📂 The 2021 Season of Docs application for organizations is open!
Take a look at how the Season of Docs program is working to support better documentation in open source, and how your organization can help.
Learn more → goo.gle/2NfQco4
Get ready for GSoC 2020! It's our 16th year of the program! Applications for orgs will open in January so if you're interested in participating take a look how you can begin to prepare.
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🎉 We are excited to announce that Google is expanding its partnership with SkyWater Technology.
Over the past 2 years, this partnership has made building open silicon accessible to all developers.
Learn more about the expansion ➡️ goo.gle/3QhLWQb
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Instead of canceling the intern program this year due to Covid-19, Google converted the program into a virtual experience. Interns are now focusing on open source this summer, thanks to the ability to work on these projects remotely!
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☀️ We have some big news for Google Summer of Code 2024 👉 goo.gle/49oWWoy
We are thrilled to share that 195 open source projects that have been selected and that we will welcome 30 new organizations for their first year as part of the program.
📢 Exciting news in AI! Google Cloud has donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation, leading to the creation of the new Agent2Agent project! 🤖 This initiative aims to build an open and interoperable ecosystem for AI agents, fostering seamless communication and collaboration.
Founding members include industry giants like Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow, all committed to advancing agentic AI through open standards.
Learn more about this game-changing move for AI interoperability!
goo.gle/a2a-to-lf#AI#Agent2Agent#LinuxFoundation#OpenSource#GoogleCloud#ArtificialIntelligence
Incomplete and confusing docs are the top complaints about open source, and tech writers across Google are tackling the issue.
We'll be sharing what we learn along the way and are excited to offer this brief guide as a starting point. goo.gl/tDuuAm
🎉 #OpenSource projects and organizations can now apply to participate as mentoring organizations in the 2022 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program!
📆 Applications for organizations close February 21 at 10am PT.
Learn more: goo.gle/34du9XY
🥁 Drumroll please! 🥁
We're thrilled to announce the Contributors for Google Summer of Code 2023 👉 goo.gle/3nqCiBW
This year's application period includes:
⭐ 43,765 applicants from 160 countries
⭐ 7,723 proposals submitted
⭐ 967 GSoC contributors accepted
After a long time in beta, @kubernetesio Ingress has gone GA in 1.19 🎉 Read more about how it impacts you, and your Ingress Controllers, on this blog by @MrBobbyTables 👉🏼goo.gle/3col1iT
🔐 @dart_lang and @FlutterDev are on a mission to improve security.
We have achieved SLSA Level 2 security on Flutter's Cocoon application, reduced our Identity and Access Management permissions to the minimum required access, and more 👉 goo.gle/3CsE4qF
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Google Summer of Code just concluded its 15th year of the program where mentors, organizations, and students around the world come together through open source. Take a look at the projects and contributions that were made over the summer! #gsocopensource.googleblog.com/20…
Google Summer of Code 2020 officially began on June 1st. Students will be spending 12 weeks over their summer working on open source projects. summerofcode.withgoogle.com
⭐🔒 #Dart and @FlutterDev have enabled Allstar and Security Scorecards on their open source repositories!
These security scanning tools have helped the Dart and Flutter team resolve over 200 high and medium security findings.
Learn more ↓ goo.gle/3NbbpZw
📣 Go Day 2022 on #GoogleOSLive is now available on demand 👉 goo.gle/3TFmqFG
✅ How do Go programs keep working?
✅ A consistent logging format for Go
✅ Write applications faster and securely with Go
✅ How to avoid out-of-memory conditions in Go
We're also thrilled to contribute to the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 launch! 🎉
We worked with the @Raspberry_Pi team to provide a great experience on Pigweed and upstreamed a new Bazel-based build system for Raspberry Pi’s Pico SDK.
Learn more → goo.gle/3SHLIFt
Today, we are expanding our partnership with @I_S_R_G to support the reimplementation of critical #opensource software in memory-safe languages.
Learn more about the project here ↓ goo.gle/3bhHYUy
Kpt is an OSS tool for Kubernetes packaging that uses a standard format to bundle, publish, customize, update, and apply configuration manifests, enabling powerful new capabilities!
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Since 2004, @GoogleOSS has supported FOSS through student programs and financial support. Now we're joining social media to engage more with the community and keep everyone up to date! goo.gl/3j9e51
Introducing Dopamine 2.0, a major update to the open source framework for flexible reinforcement learning.
No longer limited to the Arcade Learning Environment, researchers can now iterate faster on ideas before testing them on larger Atari games. opensource.googleblog.com/20…
Fact vs. fiction: Rust edition → goo.gle/3JukcXy
We're discussing rumors in @rustlang, both confirming some issues that could be improved and sharing some enlightening discoveries we have made along the way.
Introducing Outline, an open source platform for creating and operating your own VPN.
Made by @Jigsaw to help journalists cope with censorship and surveillance, it's been independently audited and designed with usability front and center. goo.gl/cgf3k9
🥳 Google Open source is thrilled to announce Season of Docs 2022!
✅ Organizations: Create your project page
✅ Technical writers: express your interest in participating as a volunteer
See the full program timeline and learn more → goo.gle/345ujk5
⚡ Accelerate your models to production with @GoogleCloud and @PyTorch.
The PyTorch foundation will deepen our open source investment to drive adoption of AI tooling by building an ecosystem of open source projects.
Learn more 👉 goo.gle/3DqQTTc
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Knowledge sharing is a key part of the open source ethos. @FFmpeg does a lot of work with hand-written assembly code. If you ever wanted to delve into assembly, their lessons are a great resource to utilize.
FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases and so we are providing assembly lessons to teach a new generation of assembly language programmers.
Learn more here:
github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lesson…
📱💻 Build apps for any screen with @FlutterDev → goo.gle/3Av1vhB
Flutter is an open source framework for building beautiful, natively compiled, multi-platform applications from a single codebase.
🚀 Since the launch of the FPGA Interchange format project by @Google and @antmicro, other @CHIPSAlliance members have joined in with a common goal: to define the Interchange format, and become a development standard the FPGA industry needs.
Read more → goo.gle/3BcfB6F
🥳 We're pleased to announce the first group of winners for the 2023 Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program!
This cycle received a record-breaking 255 nominations. Huge congratulations to the 203 winners.
See the winners → goo.gle/45vnbZ6
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Google Code-in, our annual contest that gets students ages 13-17 contributing to open source, begins on October 23rd! Today we're excited to introduce the 27 open source organizations that will be mentoring this year's students. goo.gl/kU1P1t
You can now contribute to #OpenXLA on GitHub → goo.gle/3IZcxPW
Speed up, scale, and execute your #ML models on different accelerators. A collaborative OSS effort among industry leaders to address #AI infrastructure fragmentation.
💙 We’re kicking off Go Day 2021 with @Google Programmer @ianlancetaylor!
Ian introduces Go 1.18 and discusses how to use it most effectively.
Join us 👉 goo.gle/Go_Day
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🎉 Google Summer of Code 2021 proposals are in!
Thank you to all the students and graduates who applied by submitting their final projects! We are excited to announce that the 199 mentoring organizations have selected their students.
Read the blog 👇 opensource.googleblog.com/20…
🔨✨ Open source SystemVerilog tools in ASIC design
Learn how the open ISA and ecosystem has sparked many open source CPU implementations, new tools, methodologies, and trends, including building a SystemVerilog ecosystem in CHIPS.
Read the blog 👉 goo.gle/3EnsrAk
☀️ Google Summer of Code 2021 is open for mentor organization applications!
Learn all about how you can become a part of the mentor organization for the 17th edition of Google Summer of Code from June 7-August 16.
Full details ↓ goo.gle/3r3dQmi
Happy birthday, @TheASF! 🎉
This week we celebrate 20 years of Apache and express our gratitude to all the projects and people that worked to make the foundation such an enduring success. opensource.googleblog.com/20…
Grumpy is an experimental runtime that transpiles Python code to Go. It's one of many tools @YouTube uses to improve the performance of its Python-based front-end.
And it was open sourced last year: opensource.google.com/projec…
🎉 Go Day 2022 on #GoogleOSLive will showcase how @golang programs keep working.
Join our panel of experts on November 3rd to learn all about structured logging for Go, writing your applications faster, and more.
Register today 👉 goo.gle/GoDay_22
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🎊Google Open Source is now on YouTube!
📺→ goo.gle/GoogleOSYouTube
With 2000+ talks, programs and services curated here, we’re bringing the value of open source to Google, and all the resources of Google to #OpenSource.
Remember to subscribe, and turn on notifications!🥳
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👉🏽 Today, at 9AM PT, don't miss #GoogleOSLive: Go Day talks include: "Intro to Go", "Get started", "Level Up: Go Package Discovery and editor tooling" and "From Python to Go: How @KhanAcademy is saving time and money" Join now ➡ goo.gle/339KIzl#GoLang#OpenSource
👋 Introducing the 2023 Google Season of Docs participating organizations!
We are pleased to announce that 13 organizations will be participating in this year's program.
Meet the organizations 👉 bit.ly/3M8thHw