At Google, one of the tools we use in building external and internal products is Eclipse. In addition to that, we also release Eclipse-based tools. To celebrate this and say thank you to the developer community, we’ll be hosting Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on the Mountain View, CA campus on December 18th, 2013.
Eclipse Day is a great opportunity for both Eclipse users and contributors to network and share ideas. This year we have sessions that cover Orion, the Eclipse M2M tools, BIRT, Gerrit, CDT, Dart, Hudson, performance tuning in Eclipse, and scaling Eclipse to work with Google’s massive code base. During the one day conference, Eclipse projects and Eclipse-based products created here at Google will also be highlighted.
In previous years some of the most popular sessions have been the Eclipse Ignite talks: 5-minute, 20-slide presentations by attendees sharing what they are doing with Eclipse.
A big thank you to everyone at the Eclipse Foundation for assembling this great event. We are happy to welcome the Eclipse community to our campus and are always looking for ways to make this conference better. Please share your ideas and let us know your thoughts about this year’s program.
Pre-registration, which includes a $40 contribution to the Eclipse Foundation, is required for attendance. You may pre-register until December 17th, 2013, 2pm PST.
Hope to see you there!
By Alex Ruiz, Android Development Tools
Dart 1.0: A stable SDK for structured web apps
Today we’re releasing the Dart SDK 1.0, a cross-browser, open source toolkit for structured web applications. In the two years since we first announced Dart, we’ve been working closely with early adopters to mature the project and grow the community. This release marks Dart's transition to a production-ready option for web developers.
The Dart SDK 1.0 includes everything you need to write structured web applications: a simple yet powerful programming language, robust tools, and comprehensive core libraries. Together, these pieces can help make your development workflow simpler, faster, and more scalable as your projects grow from a few scripts to full-fledged web applications.
On the tools side, the SDK includes Dart Editor, a lightweight but powerful Dart development environment. We wanted to give developers the tools to manage a growing code base, so we added code completion, refactoring, jump to definition, a debugger, hints and warnings, and lots more. Dart also offers an instant edit/refresh cycle with Dartium, a custom version of Chromium with the native Dart VM. Outside the browser, the Dart VM can also be used for asynchronous server side computation.
For deployment, dart2js is a translator that allows your Dart code to run in modern browsers. The performance of generated JavaScript has improved dramatically since our initial release and is in many cases getting close to that of idiomatic JavaScript. In fact, the dart2js output of the DeltaBlue benchmark now runs even faster than idiomatic JavaScript. Similarly, dart2js output code size has been reduced substantially. The generated JavaScript for the game Pop, Pop, Win! is now 40% smaller than it was a year ago. Performance of the VM continues to improve as well; it’s now between 42% to 130% faster than idiomatic JavaScript running in V8, depending on the benchmark.
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| DeltaBlue benchmark results |
Going forward, the Dart team will focus on improving Dartium, increasing Dart performance, and ensuring the platform remains rock solid. In particular, changes to core technologies will be backward-compatible for the foreseeable future.
Today’s release marks the first time Dart is officially production-ready, and we’re seeing teams like Blossom, Montage, Soundtrap, Mandrill, Google's internal CRM app and Google Elections, already successfully using Dart in production. In addition, companies like Adobe, drone.io, and JetBrains have started to add Dart support to their products.
To get started, head over to dartlang.org and join the conversation at our Dartisans community on Google+. We’re excited to see what you will build with the new stable Dart SDK 1.0.
Posted by Lars Bak, Software Engineer and Chief Dartisan
Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
We are excited to have a guest post from Remy DeCausemaker highlighting his first Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. Enjoy.
The first photograph was taken by Matthew Dillon. All other photos taken by Thomas Bonte, CC-BY.
Over 280 attendees representing 177 mentoring organizations gathered for a two-day, code-munity extravaganza celebrating the conclusion of Google Summer of Code with the annual Mentor Summit held at Google in Mountain View, California.
Friday Night
Mentors and admins began arriving on Friday night, and walking about you could catch bits of conversation, spoken in a plethora of languages and accents, spanning from pixels to bits.
The Summit
No less than four trips of double-decker bus loads, from two different hotels, shuttled everyone into the Googleplex. The morning began with a hearty breakfast, and coffee from Google's expert Baristas. With trays piled high with eggs, bacon, muffins, and other breakfast-y goodness, mentors took their seats in the massive company cafeteria. Under a quartet of stage lights in that familiar Google colored glow, Google Summer of Code lead Carol Smith stepped up to the microphone, and welcomed the crowd.
Once folks were acquainted with the schedule of events, places of interest, and policies to follow, FOSS Advocate and Director of Open Source Programs at Google, Chris DiBona, addressed the audience:
Prior to the summit unconference, attendees had a chance to suggest and vote on session topics using Google Moderator. Sessions were assigned to rooms of a size proportionate to their level of interest. Ample space was also provided for sessions that were proposed on-the-spot, often inspired by discussions from previous sessions.
The "Pumphandle" Session
The first "session" of the unconference took the entire GSoC audience, split it down the middle, and formed two long lines for a full morning of meet-and-greet handshaking. This provided attendees with an opportunity to meet each other, and have conversations they may not have had otherwise during the busy summit.
The Chocolate Room
Behold, the annual cocoa cornucopia! Mentors from around the world packed plenty of sweet treats to share with their fellow hackers. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, bacon chocolate, and yes, even fish chocolate.
The GSoC Band
In the Open Source Community, ad hoc collaborative teams are an everyday occurrence. But to see it happen outside of a source code repository, with a full drum set, five kinds of stringed instruments, a keyboard, and even an oboe... that is something you don't see everyday. Shout out to Saturday night's Emcee, host, and bringer of instruments, Googler Marty Conner, who got the GSoC band back together for 2013.
The Sticker Swap
Over the course of the summit, Googlers would freshen the tables of swag at the front of the cafeteria. Tshirts, banners, stickers, and even GSoC Socks! But Google wasn't the only team with a horse in the swag race. Mentors brought stacks of stickers from dozens of projects to participate in the annual sticker swap.
The Googleplex Tours
During the lunch hour each day, Stephanie Taylor and Mary Radomile of Google's Open Source Programs Office gave attendees guided tours of the Googleplex campus.
With each new release of Google's Android operating system, comes a new codename, and a new statue in the Sculpture Garden. Note the new KitKat Android on the right side of the photo.
The Cakes
Thanks to Joel Sherrill with RTEMS, who supplied the templates for the giant Google Summer of Code birthday cakes, celebrating nine consecutive years of FOSS community engagement with the logos for each year of the program on two tasty cakes.
Next year will mark the 10th year of Google Summer of Code! In honor of "the-big-one-oh," Google will be expanding the Google Summer of Code program ten percent across the board:
• 10% increase in Student Stipend
• 10% increase in total number of students accepted
• 10 more accepted Mentor Organizations than ever before
8 October, 2013 GSoC Program announced.
3 February, 2014 Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.
14 February, 2014 Mentoring organization application deadline.
10 March, 2014 Student application period opens.
21 March, 2014 Student application deadline.
Be sure to keep an eye on the GSoC 2014 Program Timeline for updates and meetups to be announced in your region.
Though this was my first Google Summer of Code, I sure don't intend for it to be my last. I cannot recommend the program highly enough. Next year your chances of acceptance (and pay check) will be better than ever. The benefits for mentors, the students, and the FOSS community at large should be abundantly clear.
Happy hacking, and I hope to see you all next year!
By Remy DeCausemaker, RIT FOSSBox
The first photograph was taken by Matthew Dillon. All other photos taken by Thomas Bonte, CC-BY.
Photo by Matthew Dillon
Over 280 attendees representing 177 mentoring organizations gathered for a two-day, code-munity extravaganza celebrating the conclusion of Google Summer of Code with the annual Mentor Summit held at Google in Mountain View, California.
Friday Night
Mentors and admins began arriving on Friday night, and walking about you could catch bits of conversation, spoken in a plethora of languages and accents, spanning from pixels to bits.
The Summit
No less than four trips of double-decker bus loads, from two different hotels, shuttled everyone into the Googleplex. The morning began with a hearty breakfast, and coffee from Google's expert Baristas. With trays piled high with eggs, bacon, muffins, and other breakfast-y goodness, mentors took their seats in the massive company cafeteria. Under a quartet of stage lights in that familiar Google colored glow, Google Summer of Code lead Carol Smith stepped up to the microphone, and welcomed the crowd.
Once folks were acquainted with the schedule of events, places of interest, and policies to follow, FOSS Advocate and Director of Open Source Programs at Google, Chris DiBona, addressed the audience:
"The reason you are here is because you deserve to be. The whole point of GSoC is to introduce new developers to FOSS, create more FOSS code, and support projects we think are great. We look at reviews, and the aftermath and say 'did it work?'The "Big Reveal”
You are here because it did.
Thank you for being there for Open Source Software. Thank you for being there for Free Software, and for being there for Google. Open source matters to us. The future of Open Source matters to us. This room--and the people you bring in--without you, it wouldn't be as wonderful in 5-10 years as it is today."
Prior to the summit unconference, attendees had a chance to suggest and vote on session topics using Google Moderator. Sessions were assigned to rooms of a size proportionate to their level of interest. Ample space was also provided for sessions that were proposed on-the-spot, often inspired by discussions from previous sessions.
The first "session" of the unconference took the entire GSoC audience, split it down the middle, and formed two long lines for a full morning of meet-and-greet handshaking. This provided attendees with an opportunity to meet each other, and have conversations they may not have had otherwise during the busy summit.
The Chocolate Room
Behold, the annual cocoa cornucopia! Mentors from around the world packed plenty of sweet treats to share with their fellow hackers. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, bacon chocolate, and yes, even fish chocolate.
The GSoC BandIn the Open Source Community, ad hoc collaborative teams are an everyday occurrence. But to see it happen outside of a source code repository, with a full drum set, five kinds of stringed instruments, a keyboard, and even an oboe... that is something you don't see everyday. Shout out to Saturday night's Emcee, host, and bringer of instruments, Googler Marty Conner, who got the GSoC band back together for 2013.
The Sticker Swap
Over the course of the summit, Googlers would freshen the tables of swag at the front of the cafeteria. Tshirts, banners, stickers, and even GSoC Socks! But Google wasn't the only team with a horse in the swag race. Mentors brought stacks of stickers from dozens of projects to participate in the annual sticker swap.
The Googleplex Tours
During the lunch hour each day, Stephanie Taylor and Mary Radomile of Google's Open Source Programs Office gave attendees guided tours of the Googleplex campus.With each new release of Google's Android operating system, comes a new codename, and a new statue in the Sculpture Garden. Note the new KitKat Android on the right side of the photo.
The Cakes
Thanks to Joel Sherrill with RTEMS, who supplied the templates for the giant Google Summer of Code birthday cakes, celebrating nine consecutive years of FOSS community engagement with the logos for each year of the program on two tasty cakes.
A New GSoC Tradition
Based on feedback from last year's summit, the organizers agreed to put together a whole track of "Google" talks, given by current employees about a variety of projects, initiatives, and technologies. One of the more popular sessions was led by Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate with the Google Cloud Team. Chun talked about the Google Cloud Platform, its variety of services, and special discounts and support provided by Google to FOSS projects.Big Take-aways
As a first-time Google Summer of Code Mentor attending my first summit, I cannot even begin to recount all of the amazing things that occurred over the course of the weekend. If you clicked on the link at the top of this article for the 177 mentoring organizations represented at the summit, you can begin to imagine the sheer magnitude of talent, passion, and dedication that gathered in Mountain View. As a storyteller, I accumulated thousands of words worth of notes from all the sessions I attended, which sadly, I cannot possibly share with all of you readers in a single post, so we're going to have to do a "highlight reel."Operating Systems Summit
When else do you see core developers from Gentoo, Debian, Fedora, NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and others, all politicking in one place?
Gamification in FOSS Session
Tales of developer incentivization were shared by projects such as Joomla, Battle For Wesnoth, and the Fedora Community.
HFOSS Session
HFOSS.org founders and members, met with representatives from other projects such as OpenMRS, Sigmah, PostgreSQL, The Sahana Software Foundation, The Tsunami Information Project, Mifos, NetBSD, SugarLabs, BRL-CAD, and a handful of others, to discuss our role as hackers to improve the conditions of our planet, and our species.
Outreach Program For WomenThe BIGGEST Take-Away
Led by Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation, who introduced the OPW, and discussed ways to bring more diversity to your FOSS project.
Next year will mark the 10th year of Google Summer of Code! In honor of "the-big-one-oh," Google will be expanding the Google Summer of Code program ten percent across the board:
• 10% increase in Student Stipend
• 10% increase in total number of students accepted
• 10 more accepted Mentor Organizations than ever before
YOU too can join the excitement!
Like what you see here? Is your project interested in mentoring? Are you a student that wants to get paid to work on Free/Open Source Software with world-class hackers? Then you should apply for Google Summer of Code 2014. Here are the important dates:8 October, 2013 GSoC Program announced.
3 February, 2014 Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.
14 February, 2014 Mentoring organization application deadline.
10 March, 2014 Student application period opens.
21 March, 2014 Student application deadline.
Be sure to keep an eye on the GSoC 2014 Program Timeline for updates and meetups to be announced in your region.
Though this was my first Google Summer of Code, I sure don't intend for it to be my last. I cannot recommend the program highly enough. Next year your chances of acceptance (and pay check) will be better than ever. The benefits for mentors, the students, and the FOSS community at large should be abundantly clear.
Happy hacking, and I hope to see you all next year!
By Remy DeCausemaker, RIT FOSSBox
Welcoming MariaDB 10.0.5
Thursday, November 7, 2013
MariaDB is a community-developed fork of MySQL, a relational database management system for developers looking for a robust, scalable, and reliable SQL server. Its current version is based on MySQL 5.5 and has the capability to provide powerful multi-source replication for data warehouses, to support subqueries that maximize performance, and to make replication more reliable with global transaction IDs.
Today, the MariaDB team is releasing MariaDB 10.0.5, which includes parallel slave replication threads, a feature sponsored by Google. Parallel replication has the ability to remove bottlenecks in replicated configurations, which is crucial as storage speeds increase to keep systems moving quickly.
Internally at Google, we’ve already deployed MariaDB 10.0 to our non-production MySQL instances to help report bugs and work with the MariaDB team to test their fixes. This release takes the MariaDB 10.0 branch from alpha to beta status, where the team will shift focus from stabilization to bug fixes.
Google’s move and support of MariaDB doesn’t affect our Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud SQL offering for developers.
Congratulations and thank you to everyone who has worked hard to get here!
By Ian Gulliver, Site Reliability Manager
Today, the MariaDB team is releasing MariaDB 10.0.5, which includes parallel slave replication threads, a feature sponsored by Google. Parallel replication has the ability to remove bottlenecks in replicated configurations, which is crucial as storage speeds increase to keep systems moving quickly.
Internally at Google, we’ve already deployed MariaDB 10.0 to our non-production MySQL instances to help report bugs and work with the MariaDB team to test their fixes. This release takes the MariaDB 10.0 branch from alpha to beta status, where the team will shift focus from stabilization to bug fixes.
Google’s move and support of MariaDB doesn’t affect our Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud SQL offering for developers.
Congratulations and thank you to everyone who has worked hard to get here!
By Ian Gulliver, Site Reliability Manager
Mentoring Organizations for Google Code-in 2013 are announced
Friday, November 1, 2013
We are pleased to announce the 10 open source organizations that will be providing tasks for young students to work on during the Google Code-in 2013 contest starting later this month. The contest is designed to introduce 13-17 year old pre-university students to open source software development. These open source organizations are all experienced at mentoring students, having all participated in Google Summer of Code in the past; many have also participated in previous years of Google Code-in as well.
Apertium - platform for making rule-based machine translation systems
BRL-CAD - a 3D computer graphics modeling system
Copyleft Games Group - promotes players rights to create, play, mod, and share games
Drupal - content management platform
Haiku - an operating system, fast and simple, inspired by the BeOS
KDE - develops desktop software (desktop globe, music player, office suite and more)
RTEMS - open source real-time operating system for embedded applications
Sahana Software Foundation - humanitarian open source disaster management software
Sugar Labs - a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for primary education
Wikimedia Foundation - MediaWiki and extensions, powering Wikipedia and thousands of collaborative websites
Organizations will provide a list of tasks for students to work on during the contest in categories such as coding, documentation, user interface, quality assurance and outreach. Each task has a mentor assigned to it to help students should they have questions as they are completing the tasks.
The mentoring organizations are now all busy working on their extensive task lists to have them ready by the start of the contest on November 18th.
Starting on Monday, November 18th at 17:00 UTC, students that meet the eligibility requirements can register on the Google Code-in contest site and start claiming tasks and earning prizes.
For more important contest information please check out the contest site for Contest Rules, Frequently Asked Questions and Important Dates. We have a screencast and a short video about the contest available to view as well. You can also join our announcement and discussion lists to talk with other students, mentors and organization administrators.
Students, join in the fun – Google Code-in starts Monday, November 18th!
By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs