⚡ 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
↓
🎉 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 →
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.
☀️📝 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 👉
📣 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 👉
✨ 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 ➡️
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.
☀️ 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 ➡️
🤝 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 ↓
🎉 We're excited to announce that Android has added support for RISC-V 👉
RISC-V is an open standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) enabling a new era of processor innovation through open collaboration.
🥁 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 ↓
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!
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.
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 →
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!
🗣 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 ↓
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.
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!
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 ➡️
🤔 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 →
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.
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
!
☁🤗 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 →
🤩 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 →
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.
🟩 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.
👉
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.
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!
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.
☀️🎉 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 →
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.
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.
🎉 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. →
☀ 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 →
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 →
📢 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 ✨
#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)!
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.
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 ↓
📝🎉 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 →
☀ 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 →
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!
🎉 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 ↓
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.
🤩📝 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 ↓
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 →
📆 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
→
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!
📸 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 👉
🤩 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 ↓
📂 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 →
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.
🎉 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 ➡️
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!
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.
🎉
#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:
🥁 Drumroll please! 🥁
We're thrilled to announce the Contributors for Google Summer of Code 2023 👉
This year's application period includes:
⭐ 43,765 applicants from 160 countries
⭐ 7,723 proposals submitted
⭐ 967 GSoC contributors accepted
☀️ We have some big news for Google Summer of Code 2024 👉
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.
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
👉🏼
🔐
@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 👉
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!
#gsoc
⭐🔒
#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 ↓
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 ↓
📣 Go Day 2022 on
#GoogleOSLive
is now available on demand 👉
✅ 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
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.
Fact vs. fiction: Rust edition →
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.
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!
🥳 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 →
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!
⚡ 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 👉
📱💻 Build apps for any screen with
@FlutterDev
→
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 →
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.
🥳 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 →
You can now contribute to
#OpenXLA
on GitHub →
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 👉
🔨✨ 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 👉
☀️ 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 ↓
🎉 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 👇
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.
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:
🎉 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 👉
👉🏽 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 ➡
#GoLang
#OpenSource
🎊Google Open Source is now on YouTube!
📺→
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!🥳
👋 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 👉
📣 Calling all machine learning enthusiasts.
@TensorFlow
provides a collection of workflows with intuitive, high-level APIs for both beginners and experts to create machine learning models in numerous languages.
Start learning TensorFlow today →
Got developer docs? Could they be better?
We're excited to announce, Google Season of Docs is accepting applications from open source organizations starting today!
We're currently seeking projects and organizations interested in being
@gsoc
mentor orgs. University students work with mentors to complete projects for free and open source software projects as part of the annual program. Deadline is January 23: