Time flies! The last year's barely passed and here we are again - another Google Summer of Code. Even though the deadline for student's submissions is less than 24 hours ahead, I'd still take the opportunity to call anyone interested, anywhere in the world, to submit a proposal - it's fun to participate!
Category Archives: Google
Luigi Talks Netmap on Google Tech Talks Channel
Last week, Luigi Rizzo visited Google and gave a talk on high-speed networking with Netmap.
This was Luigi's second talk at Google and the third talk about FreeBSD in the Google Tech Talks YouTube channel. We also have more than 100 videos available in the BSD Conferences channel.
This was Luigi's second talk at Google and the third talk about FreeBSD in the Google Tech Talks YouTube channel. We also have more than 100 videos available in the BSD Conferences channel.
Google Summer of Code 2011
As probably everyone knows by now, Google Summer of Code 2011 is announced! As in previous years, FreeBSD is expected to have a presence and this is a great opportunity for every student interested in FreeBSD to get involved and get payed doing so! FreeBSD has a pile of ideas page and I'd like to promote some of those I think are interesting.
Google Summer of Code 2011
As probably everyone knows by now, Google Summer of Code 2011 is announced! As in previous years, FreeBSD is expected to have a presence and this is a great opportunity for every student interested in FreeBSD to get involved and get payed doing so! FreeBSD has a pile of ideas page and I'd like to promote some of those I think are interesting.
FreeBSD at GSoC Mentor Summit
As in previous years, Google held a "Mentor Summit" to bring together representatives from the open source organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code to share experiences of what worked, what didn't, and generally learn from each other about shepherding students through the program. The mentor summit is always run Unconference-style and it is a great opportunity to meet, learn, and socialize with the many other open source organizations.In addition to several hours of face to face FreeBSD-related catch-up with Brooks Davis over pizza and beer, I particularly enjoyed catching up with old colleagues and learning about the current state of a variety of other open source projects I use such as R, Boost, NTP, and Ganeti.This weekend Brooks and I were the only FreeBSD representatives. Given that I'm local and Google sponsors the travel of 2 representatives from each open source organization it's quite unfortunate we couldn't get another FreeBSD mentor here this year. I would strongly encourage some of the other mentors that have never participated in this forum to volunteer to represent FreeBSD next year. This program has funded approximately 117 students to work on FreeBSD over the past 5 years and the mentor summit is best way I know of to improve the experience for students and open source projects next year.Thanks again to all the FreeBSD mentors that worked with students this summer and hope to see some of you at the post-GSoC Mentor Summit next year...
FreeBSD at GSoC Mentor Summit
As in previous years, Google held a "Mentor Summit" to bring together representatives from the open source organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code to share experiences of what worked, what didn't, and generally learn from each other about shepherding students through the program. The mentor summit is always run Unconference-style and it is a great opportunity to meet, learn, and socialize with the many other open source organizations.
In addition to several hours of face to face FreeBSD-related catch-up with Brooks Davis over pizza and beer, I particularly enjoyed catching up with old colleagues and learning about the current state of a variety of other open source projects I use such as R, Boost, NTP, and Ganeti.
This weekend Brooks and I were the only FreeBSD representatives. Given that I'm local and Google sponsors the travel of 2 representatives from each open source organization it's quite unfortunate we couldn't get another FreeBSD mentor here this year. I would strongly encourage some of the other mentors that have never participated in this forum to volunteer to represent FreeBSD next year. This program has funded approximately 117 students to work on FreeBSD over the past 5 years and the mentor summit is best way I know of to improve the experience for students and open source projects next year.
Thanks again to all the FreeBSD mentors that worked with students this summer and hope to see some of you at the post-GSoC Mentor Summit next year...
In addition to several hours of face to face FreeBSD-related catch-up with Brooks Davis over pizza and beer, I particularly enjoyed catching up with old colleagues and learning about the current state of a variety of other open source projects I use such as R, Boost, NTP, and Ganeti.
This weekend Brooks and I were the only FreeBSD representatives. Given that I'm local and Google sponsors the travel of 2 representatives from each open source organization it's quite unfortunate we couldn't get another FreeBSD mentor here this year. I would strongly encourage some of the other mentors that have never participated in this forum to volunteer to represent FreeBSD next year. This program has funded approximately 117 students to work on FreeBSD over the past 5 years and the mentor summit is best way I know of to improve the experience for students and open source projects next year.
Thanks again to all the FreeBSD mentors that worked with students this summer and hope to see some of you at the post-GSoC Mentor Summit next year...
Google Instant search is not magic
In the last few days I have read several blogs, even technical blogs which should know better, treating Google's Instant Search like it's something otherworldly. Without actually analyzing how it's done, I think it's simply one of these things whose time has come. In other worlds, here's how I'd do it:
Google Instant search is not magic
In the last few days I have read several blogs, even technical blogs which should know better, treating Google's Instant Search like it's something otherworldly. Without actually analyzing how it's done, I think it's simply one of these things whose time has come. In other worlds, here's how I'd do it:
BSDCan on Google’s Open Source Blog
A coworker of mine, Kirk Russell, just posted an excellent summary of BSDCan through the years on the Google Open Source Blog.I wasn't able to make it to BSDCan this year due to family commitments, but I did make it to another open source conference later this summer that I also wrote about on Google's open source blog.Kirk and I haven't worked closely together but we both do our best at evangelizing BSD and open source inside our respective corners of the company. It's great to see his post about all the excellent work happening in the BSD community on a corporate blog.
BSDCan on Google’s Open Source Blog
A coworker of mine, Kirk Russell, just posted an excellent summary of BSDCan through the years on the Google Open Source Blog.
I wasn't able to make it to BSDCan this year due to family commitments, but I did make it to another open source conference later this summer that I also wrote about on Google's open source blog.
Kirk and I haven't worked closely together but we both do our best at evangelizing BSD and open source inside our respective corners of the company. It's great to see his post about all the excellent work happening in the BSD community on a corporate blog.
I wasn't able to make it to BSDCan this year due to family commitments, but I did make it to another open source conference later this summer that I also wrote about on Google's open source blog.
Kirk and I haven't worked closely together but we both do our best at evangelizing BSD and open source inside our respective corners of the company. It's great to see his post about all the excellent work happening in the BSD community on a corporate blog.
FreeBSD Tech Talk @ Google
Long time FreeBSD developer Luigi Rizzo from the University of Pisa came to Google last week to visit with Sam Leffler and me, and he agreed to give a talk about some of his work on link emulation and packet scheduling.This marks the second FreeBSD video in the Google Tech Talks channel in addition to the 70+ videos in the BSD Conferences channel. Enjoy.
FreeBSD Tech Talk @ Google
Long time FreeBSD developer Luigi Rizzo from the University of Pisa came to Google last week to visit with Sam Leffler and me, and he agreed to give a talk about some of his work on link emulation and packet scheduling.
This marks the second FreeBSD video in the Google Tech Talks channel in addition to the 70+ videos in the BSD Conferences channel. Enjoy.
This marks the second FreeBSD video in the Google Tech Talks channel in addition to the 70+ videos in the BSD Conferences channel. Enjoy.
Florent Thoumie » FreeBSD 2010-04-06 19:34:09
... and send your Google Summer of Code application.
Deadline is in 3 days. Kthxbye
Android SDK on FreeBSD
An interesting thing for Android enthusiasts: there's an Android SDK for FreeBSD 8 available!
Google Chromium on FreeBSD
I started looking if there is a way to port the Chromium browser (aka the open-source core of the Google Chrome browser) to FreeBSD but it looks like someone has already done it :) Download Chromium for FreeBSD here!