Come Meet the Google Open Source Team at OSCON!

Google Cloud is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor at OSCON, and we’re excited for another year of connecting, learning, and sharing with the open source community! Google is deeply grateful to all of your amazing open source efforts, so to celebrate, our booth will have an Open Gratitude wall where we will acknowledge your contributions, and where we encourage you to express your gratitude for those who have helped you in open source!

Once you’ve recognized your open source heroes on the Open Gratitude wall, stick around at the Google Open Source booth to learn about topics such as open source governance, documentation, open source in ML and gaming, encouraging non-code contributions, and about Google’s open source outreach programs in general. At our booth sessions you can also explore open source projects such as Kubernetes, Istio, Go, and Beam (as well as other Apache projects). Booth office hours run from 10:15am to 7pm Wednesday, July 17, and from 10:15am to 4:10pm on Thursday, July 18. The full schedule will be posted at the booth—please come by and check it out!

In addition to the events at the booth, the Google open source team has two workshops on Tuesday, July 16:

• 9:00 –12:30: Zero to Docs: Hands-On Documentation Workshop

This half-day workshop kicks off with an overview of research-backed documentation best practices. Andrew Chen, Erin McKean, and Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy lead you through a hands-on exercise in which you'll create the skeleton of a ready-to-deploy documentation website for your open source project.

• 1:30 – 5:00: Hands-on Kubernetes New Contributor Workshop

Paris Pittman takes you through the ins and outs of the Kubernetes contributor community so you can land your first PR. You'll learn about SIGs, the GitHub workflow, its automation and continuous integration (CI), setting up your dev environment, and much more. Stick around until the end, and you'll have time to work on your first PR with the help of current contributors.

We also hope you attend the main conference sessions presented by Googlers, especially the keynotes on Wednesday (Built to last: What Google and Microsoft have learned growing open source communities) and Thursday (Be a Docs Star), and the sessions on Wednesday:

• 11:00 – 11:40: Live coding a machine learning model from scratch
• 1:45 – 2:25: Flutter meets the Physical World
• 1:45 – 2:25: Introducing Kubeflow w/ Special Guests Tensorflow & cross-cloud machine learning
• 4:15 – 4:55: Real-time streaming APIs: from data-center to Internet clients

And Thursday:

• 11:50 – 12:30: Open Source Citizenship
• 1:45 – 2:25: CI/CD in a cloud native world
• 2:35 – 3:15:Break me if you can: practical guide to building fault-tolerant systems
• 2:35 – 3:15: Serverless On Your Own Terms using Knative
• 4:15 – 4:55: Code Generation: Principles and Challenges

As part of our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive community, we’ve redirected our conference swag budget into diversity scholarships. (We believe you’d prefer to have more interesting conversations with a wider range of people over another pair of socks!) But if you are looking for a souvenir of your time in Portland there will be a special Portland-themed sticker featuring Pancakes, the (extremely adorable) gRPC mascot, and we encourage projects to take and leave stickers in our sticker-swap space!

OSCON is one of the highlights of the year for those of us who love open source—we’re thrilled to be able to share what we’ve learned with you, and to learn what you’re interested in and excited about (and also what you think could improve). See you in Portland!

Googlers on the road: CLS and OSCON 2018

Next week a veritable who’s who of free and open source software luminaries, maintainers and developers will gather to celebrate the 20th annual OSCON and the 20th anniversary of the Open Source Definition. Naturally, the Google Open Source and Google Cloud teams will be there too!

Program chairs at OSCON 2017, left to right:
Rachel Roumeliotis, Kelsey Hightower, Scott Hanselman.
Photo used with permission from O'Reilly Media.

This year OSCON returns to Portland, Oregon and runs from July 16-19. As usual, it is preceded by the free-to-attend Community Leadership Summit on July 14-15.

If you’re curious about our outreach programs, our approach to open source, or any of the open source projects we’ve released, please find us! We’re eager to chat. You’ll find us and many other Googlers throughout the week on stage, in the expo hall, and at several special events that we’re running, including:

• TensorFlow Day on Tuesday from 9am-5pm
• Istio Day on Tuesday from 9am-5pm
• Better Together Diversity Networking Lunch on Wednesday from 12:30-1:45pm
• Kubernetes Anniversary Party at Cloud Native PDX Meetup on Wednesday from 7-9pm

Here’s a rundown of the sessions we’re hosting this year:

Sunday, July 15th (Community Leadership Summit)

11:45am   Asking for time and/or money by Cat Allman

Monday, July 16th (Tutorials)

9:00am    Getting started with TensorFlow by Josh Gordon
1:30pm    Introduction to natural language processing with Python by Barbara Fusinska

Tuesday, July 17th (Tutorials)

9:00am    Istio Day opening remarks by Kelsey Hightower
9:00am    TensorFlow Day opening remarks by Edd Wilder-James
9:05am    Sailing to 1.0: Istio community update by April Nassi
9:05am    The state of TensorFlow by Sandeep Gupta
9:30am    Introduction to fairness in machine learning by Hallie Benjamin
9:55am    Farm to table: A TensorFlow story by Gunhan Gulsoy
11:00am  Hassle-free, scalable machine learning with Kubeflow by Barbara Fusinska
11:05am  Istio: Zero-trust communication security for production services by Samrat Ray, Tao Li, and Mak Ahmad
12:00pm  Project Magenta: Machine learning for music and art by Sherol Chen
1:35pm    Istio à la carte by Daniel Ciruli

Wednesday, July 18th (Sessions)

9:00am    Wednesday opening welcome by Kelsey Hightower
11:50am  Machine learning for continuous integration by Joseph Gregorio
1:45pm    Live-coding a beautiful, performant mobile app from scratch by Emily Fortuna and Matt Sullivan
2:35pm    Powering TensorFlow with big data using Apache Beam, Flink, and Spark by Holden Karau
5:25pm    Teaching the Next Generation to FLOSS by Josh Simmons

Thursday, July 19th (Sessions)

9:00am    Thursday opening welcome by Kelsey Hightower
9:40am    20 years later, open source is as important as ever by Sarah Novotny
11:50am  Google’s approach to distributed systems observability by Jaana B. Dogan
2:35pm    gRPC versus REST: Let the battle begin with Alex Borysov
5:05pm    Shenzhen Go: A visual Go environment for everybody, even professionals by Josh Deprez

We look forward to seeing you and the rest of the community there!

By Josh Simmons, Google Open Source

Saddle up and meet us in Texas for OSCON 2017

The Google Open Source team is getting ready to hit the road and join the open source panoply that is Open Source Convention (OSCON). This year the event runs May 8-11 in Austin, Texas and is preceded on May 6-7 by the free-to-attend Community Leadership Summit (CLS).

Program chairs at OSCON 2016, left to right:
Kelsey Hightower, Scott Hanselman, Rachel Roumeliotis.
Photo used with permission from O'Reilly Media.

You’ll find our team and many other Googlers throughout the week on the program schedule and in the expo hall at booth #401. We’ve got a full rundown of our schedule below, but you can swing by the expo hall anytime to discuss Google Cloud Platform, our open source outreach programs, the projects we’ve open-sourced including Kubernetes, TensorFlow, gRPC, and even our recently released open source documentation.

Of course, you’ll also find our very own Kelsey Hightower everywhere since he is serving as one of three OSCON program chairs for the second year in a row.

Are you a student, educator, project maintainer, community leader, past or present participant in Google Summer of Code or Google Code-in? Join us for lunch at the Google Summer of Code table in the conference lunch area on Wednesday afternoon. We’ll discuss our outreach programs which help open source communities grow while providing students with real world software development experience. We’ll be updating this blog post and tweeting with details closer to the date.

Without further ado, here’s our schedule of events:

Monday, May 8th (Tutorials)

9:00am   Site reliability engineering by Jean Joswig

1:30pm   Kubernetes hands-on by Kelsey Hightower

Tuesday, May 9th (Tutorials)

1:30pm   Building amazing cross-platform command-line apps in Go by Steve Francia co-presented with Ashley McNamara
1:30pm  "Measure all the things" and other memes you haven’t implemented yet by Kelsey Hightower

Wednesday, May 10th (Sessions)

11:00am  TensorFlow Community Keynote by Yufeng Guo and Amy Unruh

11:50am  The life of a large-scale open source project by Jessica Frazelle 

11:50am  What is machine learning by Amy Unruh

12:30pm Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in lunch

4:15pm   From WebSockets to WISH (web in strict HTTP) by Wenbo Zhu

5:05pm   gRPC 101 for Java developers: Building small and efficient microservices by Ray Tsang

5:05pm   Go deep, go wide, go everywhere: Hands-on machine learning with TensorFlow by Yufeng Guo

Thursday, May 11th (Sessions)

9:30am  Half my life spent in open source by Brad Fitzpatrick

4:15pm  Multilayered testing by Alex Martelli

We look forward to seeing you deep in the heart of Texas at OSCON 2017!

By Josh Simmons, Google Open Source

Googlers on the road: OSCON 2016 in Austin

Developers and open source enthusiasts converge on Austin, Texas in just under two weeks for O’Reilly Media’s annual open source conference, OSCON, and the Community Leadership Summit (CLS) that precedes it. CLS runs May 14-15 at the Austin Convention Center followed by OSCON from May 16-19.

OSCON 2014 program chairs including Googler Sarah Novotny.
Photo licensed by O'Reilly Media under CC-BY-NC 2.0.

This year we have 10 Googlers hosting sessions covering topics including web development, machine learning, devops, astronomy and open source. A list of all of the talks hosted by Googlers alongside related events can be found below.

If you’re a student, educator, mentor, past or present participant in Google Summer of Code or Google Code-in, or just interested in learning more about the two programs, make sure to join us Monday evening for our Birds of a Feather session.

Have questions about Kubernetes, Google Summer of Code, open source at Google or just want to meet some Googlers? Stop by booth #307 in the Expo Hall.

Thursday, May 12th - GDG Austin

7:00pm   Google Developers Group Austin Meetup

Sunday, May 15th - Community Leadership Summit

10:00am  Occupational Hazard by Josh Simmons

Monday, May 16th

9:00am   Kubernetes: From scratch to production in 2 days by Brian Dorsey and Jeff Mendoza

7:00pm   Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in Birds of a Feather

Tuesday, May 17th

9:00am   Kubernetes: From scratch to production in 2 days by Brian Dorsey and Jeff Mendoza

9:00am   Diving into machine learning through TensorFlow by Julia Ferraioli, Amy Unruh and Eli Bixby

Wednesday, May 18th

1:50pm    Open source lessons from the TODO Group by Chris DiBona, Chris Aniszczyk, Nithya Ruff, Jeff McAffer and Benjamin VanEvery

5:10pm    Scalable bidirectional communication over the Web by Wenbo Zhu

Thursday, May 19th
11:00am  Kubernetes hackathon at OSCON Contribute hosted by Brian Dorsey, Nikhil Jindal, Janet Kuo, Jeff Mendoza, John Mulhausen, Sarah Novotny, Terrence Ryan and Chao Xu

2:40pm    Blocks in containers: Lessons learned from containerizing Minecraft by Julia Ferraioli

5:10pm    PANOPTES: Open source planet discovery by Jennifer Tong and Wilfred Gee

5:10pm    Stop writing JavaScript frameworks by Joseph Gregorio

Haven’t registered for OSCON yet? You can knock 25% off the cost of registration by using discount code Google25, or attend parts of the event including our Birds of a Feather session for free by using discount code OSCON16XPO.

See you at OSCON!

By Josh Simmons, Open Source Programs Office

Googlers head to OSCON 2013

In three weeks, developers from around the world will converge on Portland, Oregon for O’Reilly Media’s annual open source conference, OSCON. The gathering of 2,000+ open source enthusiasts will take place July 22-26 at the Oregon Convention Center in the City of Roses.

This year 19 Googlers will be hosting sessions on a variety of topics with dozens more attending the open source conference. A list of all of the talks hosted by Googlers can be found below in chronological order.

Monday, July 22nd
9:00am    Ronald Minnich and Stefan Reinauer “Coreboot Tutorial”
1:30pm    Francesc Campoy Flores “Introduction to Go”

Wednesday, July 24th
1:40pm    Johan Euphrosine “How Learning Go Made Me A Better Programmer”
2:30pm    Francesc Campoy Flores “Go Best Practices”
4:10pm    Alice Boxhall and Rachel Shearer “Testing for accessibility”
                Caskey Dickson “While (true) do; how hard can it be to keep running?”
7:00pm    Google Open Source Team “Google Summer of Code Birds of a Feather” - check the BoF Board onsite for                              location

Thursday, July 25th
10:40am   Alex Martelli “‘Good enough’ is good enough!”
                Augie Fackler and Nathaniel Manista “The End Of Object Inheritance & The Beginning of Anti-Rumsfeldian                                Modularity”
1:40pm    Tim Bray “Reducing Identity Pain”
                Gustavo Franco “Go Language for Ops and Site Reliability Engineering”
4:10pm    Stuart Langley, moderator; Amy Unruh, panelist “Building Scalable PHP Applications Using Google’s App                                Engine”
                 Wesley Chun “Python 103: Memory Model & Best Practices”

Friday, July 26th
10:00am    Brad Fitzpatrick “dl.google.com: powered by Go”
11:00am    Chris DiBona, Shawn Pearce and Carol Smith “The Google Open Source Update”

We hope to see you at OSCON!

By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs

Everyone's Coming up to the City of Roses

As the temperatures rise in the northern hemisphere, Googlers from across the world will travel to the City of Roses, (Portland, Oregon) for OSCON, O’Reilly’s 14th annual Open Source convention held July 16-20 at the Oregon Convention Center. Over 2,500 open source enthusiasts from around the world will congregate for sessions and tutorials on everything open source.

This year 18 Googlers will be talking and teaching on a variety of topics with another 30 or so attending the weeklong conference. The schedule of the talks by Googlers are listed below in chronological order.

Monday, July 16th
7:00pm
Google Summer of Code Birds of a Feather (BoF) - All past and present participants in the Google Summer of Code program are welcome to join us, all you need is a free Expo Only Hall pass for OSCON.

Tuesday, July 17th
1:30pm
Andrew Gerrand - “Building real software with Go”

Wednesday, July 18th
10:40am 
Wesley Chun - “Python 3: the Next Generation (is here already)”
Joe Gregorio - “Scaling to 100+ APIs”
Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand - “The Go 1 Programming Environment”

1:40pm 
Bob Evans - “Experience Sampling Experience”
Alex Martelli - "Permission or Forgiveness?”

Thursday, July 19th
10:40am
Bob Nystrom - “Dart: Google’s evil plot to make it easier for you to build web apps”

11:30am
Christopher Swenson - “Google Government Public Data: Finding and delivering the world’s government, tabular data”

1:40pm
Chris DiBona - “Ask a Google Engineer Anything”
Google will again sponsor its popular “Ask Google Engineers Anything” session. The session is intended to help developers work better with Googlers and Google technology and to answer most of the questions that developers might be puzzled about.
Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick - “The Art of Organizational Manipulation”

2:30pm
Alice Boxhall - “Web Application Accessibility”
Wesley Chun - “Connecting to Twitter and Google+ using Python”

3:20pm
Bob Nystrom - “Office Hour with Bob Nystrom”

Friday, July 20th
9:05am
Chris DiBona - “Keynote”

10:00am
Chris DiBona, Shawn Pearce - and Carol Smith - “The Google Open Source Update”
Augie Fackler and Nathaniel Manista - “Stop Mocking, Start Testing”
Justin McWilliams - “Using and Building Open Source in Google Corporate Engineering”

For a complete schedule of talks at OSCON, you can visit the conference site. We hope to see you at OSCON!


By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs

Googlers Flock to Portland for OSCON

Two weeks from now Googlers from all over the world will be gathering in Portland, Oregon for OSCON, O’Reilly Media’s annual open source convention. OSCON is being held at the Oregon Convention Center from July 25th - July 29th and we are all looking forward to meeting up with 2,000+ of our friends in the open source community.

This year 17 Googlers will be hosting sessions on a variety of topics at OSCON with dozens more attending the open source conference. Below is a comprehensive list of the speakers and their sessions in chronological order.

Tuesday, July 26th

Andrew Gerrand - "A Tour of Go"

Wesley Chun - "Google App Engine Workshop"

Wednesday, July 27th

Rob Pike - "The Expressiveness of Go"

Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman - "Programming Well With Others: Social Skills for Geeks"

Wesley Chun - "Python 3: The Next Generation"

Brian Quinlan - "Python Puzzlers"

Ben Collins-Sussman - "The Unexpected Resurgence of Interactive Fiction"

Joseph Smarr - "Fighting for the Future of the Social Web: Selling Out and Opening Up"

Thursday, July 28th

Google will be sponsoring an “Ask Google Engineers Anything” sessions after a successful session at last year’s OSCON. The session is intended to help developers work better with Googlers and Google technology and to answer most of the questions that developers might be baffled about.

Chris DiBona and multiple Google Engineers - "Ask Google Engineers Anything"

Chris DiBona and Carol Smith - "Google Open Source and Summer of Code Update"

Robert Nystrom - "Magpie"

Alex Martelli - "API Design Anti-patterns"

Deborah Wallach - "Programming with App Inventor for Android"

Cat Allman - "Fundraising 101: (or “Free as in Freedom So Who Pays for the Beer?”)"

Friday, July 29th

Lindsey Simon - "Use 10,000 Browsers or How to Crowdsource, Archive and Share User Agent Data in the Open with Browserscope"

Shawn Pearce - "Android Infrastructure, the Workings behind the Curtain"

This year OSCON has added two additional conferences co-located with OSCON. OSCON Java, which focuses on open source technologies that make up the Java ecosystem and OSCON Data, the first event of its kind focused solely on open source data infrastructure. We have speakers at both events; for more details click on their sessions below.

OSCON Java - Tuesday, July 26th

Josh Bloch will be delivering the keynote, and then giving a talk later in the afternoon on “The Evolution of Java: Past, Present, and Future”.

OSCON Data Wednesday, July 27th

Robin Anil will host a session on “Hands on Mahout - Mammoth Scale Machine Learning”

We hope to see you at OSCON!

By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs

Chris DiBona’s OSCON Keynote: Your Work in Open Source

If you missed seeing Google’s Open Source Programs Manager Chris DiBona speak live at OSCON last week, the video from his keynote is now available online.



There are also notes available from multiple OSCON sessions on Google Wave - check out the full listing if you want to catch up!

By Ellen Ko, Open Source Team

Live Waving at OSCON 2010

With OSCON underway, we're excited about the opportunities that many of us have to present at the conference and we've taken some time to prepare resources for OSCON attendees to use Google Wave to "live wave" during the event.

If you're not familiar with live waving, it's a way of capturing what is occurring at a live event in real time on a wave. It’s similar to live blogging, but provides a smoother experience for the publishers and viewers. For example, you can take a look at the live wave that was used to capture the keynote address at this year's Google I/O conference.

We've put together the following resources for OSCON:

• A public wave that users can use to view an index of all OSCON sessions, with a corresponding link to a live wave for each session (http://bit.ly/OSCON2010LiveWaves)
• A "Live Waving 101" introduction wave for users to learn about live waving (http://bit.ly/LiveWaving101)

If you'll be attending OSCON, we would like to ask for your help in getting the word out about the live waves. You can let your fellow attendees know about the waves by tweeting, waving, or emailing the following link to folks: http://bit.ly/OSCON2010Waves. Everyone can contribute and we encourage you to join in on the live waves -- or start your own for one of the hundreds of sessions.

We think that live waves will serve as a great resource for attendees to share information and to connect in real time. If you want to learn more about Wave, please join us for Joe Gregorio and Dan Peterson’s talk, “Open Source Google Wave: Building Your Own Wave Provider” at 5:20 PM on Thursday or for the “Wave - Open Source and Open Protocols” Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at 8 PM on Thursday.

By Andrés Ferraté, Developer Advocate Team

Googlers on the Loose at OSCON

In three weeks, Googlers from offices around the world will be gathering in Portland, OR for OSCON, O'Reilly Media’s annual open source convention. OSCON will take place from July 19th - 23rd, and we’re looking forward to the opportunity to meet and interact with the open source community.

There is an impressive lineup of Googlers speaking at OSCON this year, with 20 of them presenting talks and even more attending. Click on the session names below for more information on each talk’s time and location.

Robin Anil: Mahout: Mammoth Scale Machine Learning

Dan Bentley: Make Open Easy

Tim Bray: Practical Concurrency

Ben Collins-Sussman: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: The Joys of Engineering Leadership

Chris DiBona: Google Open Source Update 2010 and Your Work in Open Source, 3 years of Incremental Change

Brian Fitzpatrick: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: The Joys of Engineering Leadership

Joe Gregorio: Extending Wave with Robots and Gadgets

Sam Johnston: What We Need are Standards in the Cloud

John Koleszar: Introducing WebM: High Quality, Royalty-Free, Open Source Video

Ikai Lan: Introduction to Google App Engine and What is Google App Engine?

Alex Martelli: Practical Python Patterns and Powerful Pythonic Patterns

Mark Miller: E, Caja

Dan Morrill: Android: The Whats and Wherefores

A. Ali Pasha: Challenges of running Google Code - Porn, Malware, Hacks, etc.

Dan Peterson: Extending Wave with Robots and Gadgets

Rob Pike: Go, Public Static Void, and Another Go at Language Design

Mark Pilgrim: HTML5's Multimedia Future

Mark Smith: Build Your Own Contributors (One Part at a Time)

John Woodell: Ruby and Duby on App Engine

Roni Zeiger: Google Health: Connecting Mobile Patients

If you have a particular interest in Android, in addition to Dan Morrill’s talk there will be an Android Hands-On session at 7 PM on Wednesday. This event promises to be “an intense, technical, and structured event led by Google Android experts.” Advance registration is required for this event, so don’t forget to sign up!

We’ll also be holding a Google Summer of Code™ Birds of a Feather (BoF) session on Wednesday. This BoF is a chance for anyone who has been involved in Google Summer of Code or is interested in learning more to meet face to face and talk about the Google Summer of Code experience. The fun and community bonding starts at 7 PM!

In addition to all the talks and events listed above, the Google Open Source Programs Office will be holding Office Hours on Wednesday, at 2:30 PM. If you’ve ever had a question about open source and Google, this is a great opportunity to meet the team and ask it in person. You’re also welcome to just come by, say hello, and hang out.

Hope to see you at OSCON!

By Ellen Ko, Open Source Team

Google Summer of Code Flocks Together

One of the great things about Google Summer of Code™ is that it's a great way to meet other Open Source-minded people. Not only do students get paired with their mentors, but students get to know each other, as do mentors and project administrators.

Last month, Leslie Hawthorn, Cat Allman, and I attended the Google Summer of Code Birds of a Feather session at Open Source Bridge, organized by Jonathan Leto. We had the pleasure of meeting with Google Summer of Code students, mentors, admins, and potential participants to discuss what works, what doesn't work, and ways the program could be improved. We got some great feedback, and best of all, we had the opportunity to interact face to face with participants instead of solely via email, mailing lists, or IRC! You can see a photo and read more about the meetup on Jonathan's blog post about the event.

Last week, the Open Source Programs Office outreach team met with more Google Summer of Code participants at our BoF session at OSCON. Our session extended late into the night with some really interesting discussions about how to help students succeed in computer science.

If you would like to know about upcoming Google Summer of Code meetups, please join our meetups mailing list - we'd love to meet you!

by Ellen Ko, Open Source Team

Congratulations to the Winners of the Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards

Yesterday evening, I was privileged to share a stage with OSCON Co-Chair, Allison Randal to present the 5th Annual Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards. We once again opened nominations to the Open Source world at large and we were pleased at the fantastic response we received from the community. From the hundreds of nominations we received, after much deliberation these five individuals were selected:

• Brian Aker, Best Open Source Database Hacker for his work on Drizzle and MySQL
• Bruce Momjian, Database Jedi Master for his work on PostgreSQL
• Clay Johnson, Best Community Builder for his work with Sunlight Labs
• Evan Prodromou, Best Social Networking Hacker for his work on identi.ca and Laconica
• Penny Leach, Best Education Hacker for her work on Mahara and Moodle

Our Award Winners & Presenters (listed from left to right):

Brian Aker, Leslie Hawthorn, Evan Prodromou, Bruce Momjian, Allison Randal, Nat Torkington
Photo Credit: Pinar Ozyger

Congratulations to Brian, Bruce, Clay, Evan and Penny! Each of them will receive a beautiful (and shiny!) glass statue, along with a 5000 USD cash prize in support of their Open Source development efforts.

The awards are just one part of Google's participation in OSCON 2009. If you're around, come find us, introduce yourself and share your thoughts on all things Open Source.

By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team

Where to Find Us at OSCON 2009

OSCON has returned to the San Francisco Bay Area for 2009, and Googlers will once again be out in force to spread the joy of all things Google and Open Source. Please make sure to join us on Tuesday, July 21st for the conference opening ceremonies, where we'll announce the winners of the 5th Annual Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards. If you've already arrived for the conference, you may want to stop by our Birds of a Feather session for the Google Summer of Code™ community this evening at 8:00 PM. We're also proud to feed all of you in the great Google tradition at Wednesday's lunch.

And, of course, there will be several talks and tutorials delivered by Googlers, including:

• Introduction to Google App Engine by Joe Gregorio, 8:30 AM on July 20th (tutorial)
• Zen and the Art of Abstraction Maintenance by Alex Martelli, 10:45 AM on July 22nd
• Even Faster Websites by Steve Souders, 11:35 AM on July 22nd
• Getting Started in Free and Open Source, by Cat Allman and Leslie Hawthorn, 11:35 AM on July 22nd
• Programmer Insecurity and the Genius Myth, by Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick, 1:45 PM on July 22nd
• Green Computing for the Little Guys with Bill Weihl, 1:45 PM on July 22nd (panel)
• Your Work in Open Source, the Numbers, by Chris DiBona, 9:15 AM on July 23rd
• JRuby on Google App Engine by John Woodell and Max Ross, joined by Ted Han, 10:45 AM on July 23rd
• The Google Open Source Update, by Chris DiBona and Leslie Hawthorn, 11:35 AM on July 23rd

If you're around Silicon Valley and can't make the entire conference, keep in mind that the Birds of a Feather sessions, OSCamp and a host of other events at OSCON are free of charge to attend with your expo hall registration. We hope to see you there!

By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team

Now Accepting Nominations for the 5th Annual Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards

The Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards are back again for 2009! These awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for 2005-2008 include Angela Byron, Andrew Tridgell, Harald Welte, Julian Seward, Karl Fogel, Martin Dougiamas, Pamela Jones and Paul Vixie.

The nomination process is open to all, so please send your nominations to [email protected]. Nominations should include the name of the recipient, any associated projects or organizations, suggested title for the award ("Best Hacker", "Best Community Builder", etc.), and a description of why you are nominating the individual. Google and O'Reilly employees are not eligible for the awards, though we thank you if you thought of us.

Nominations close on May 22, 2009. The awards will be presented during the kickoff ceremonies for OSCON 2009. We look forward to hearing from you and having your help to honor those community members who make Open Source that much better for all of us!

Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team

... and the winners of the 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards are...

By Jeff Bailey, Open Source Team

Hello from OSCON! This evening, we hosted the fourth annual Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards. I'm pleased to announce, for those who weren't present, the winners of the 2008 awards:

• Best Community Amplifier: Chris Messina - BarCamp, Microformats and Spread Firefox
• Best Contributor: Angela Byron - Drupal
• Best Education Enabler: Martin Dougiamas - Moodle
• Best Interoperator: Andrew Tridgell - Samba and Rsync
• Defender of Rights: Harald Welte - gplviolations.org

Awards were given out by Google's Chris DiBona and Parrot's Allison Randall to the various recipients, with Bryan Williams accepting on behalf of Martin.

For a special treat, Leslie Hawthorn got up and spoke about Angela's award.

As always, we're having a good time and many of us will be working the Google booth on the exhibition floor tomorrow and Thursday. I'll hope you'll come say "Hi!"

A Gaggle of Googlers Are Going to OSCON Next Week

By Cat Allman, Open Source Programs

The Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON ) is returning to Portland, Oregon, USA next week from July 21-25, and like swallows to Capistrano, Googlers will be there in force.

Between speakers, tutorial instructors, demo-ers of cool stuff in our booth, #116, and attendees, we expect to have upwards of 25 Googlers in attendance. Sessions with our speakers and instructors include:

On MONDAY, July 21st
PHP Extension Writing, Marcus Boerger, and Practical Test-driven Development, Josh McAdams.

On TUESDAY, July 22nd
An Open Source Startup in Three Hours, Gavin Doughtie, Porting to Python 3.0, Anthony Baxter, and People for Geeks, a panel including Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman, plus Tuesday evening is the annual Google O’Reilly Open Source Awards.

On WEDNESDAY, July 23rd
Subversion Worst Practices, Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick, Code Reviews for Fun and Profit, Alex Martelli, An Open Source Project Called 'Failure', a panel with Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick, Google XML Pages (GXP), Laurence Gonsalves and Harry Heymann, and The Google Open Source Update, Chris DiBona and Leslie Hawthorn.

On THURSDAY, July 24th
PLUTO: PL/SQL Unit Testing for Oracle, Josh McAdams, General Lightning Talks, lead by Anthony Baxter, Do You Believe in the Users?, Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick, CSS for High Performance JavaScript UI, Gavin Doughtie, Even Faster Web Sites, Steve Souders, and (The Lack of) Design Patterns in Python, Joe Gregorio.

On FRIDAY, July 25th
Open Source and Standards, Joe Gregorio

If you have questions about Google and Open Source, come on down. Hope to see you there.

Nominations Open for the Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards

By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team

Google's Open Source Team and O'Reilly Media are once again teaming up to present five Open Sourcerers with awards at OSCON 2008. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to nominate recipients, so check out our Hall of Fame for inspiration and a list of past winners. We'll be accepting nominations through May 15, 2008; for more details, check out the announcement on the O'Reilly Radar.

We look forward to hearing from you!