Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Jeremy Allison

Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team

Next Tuesday, March 27, the Open Source Developers at Google Speakers will welcome Jeremy Allison, one of Samba's maintainers and a recent addition to the Google Open Source team. Jeremy will discuss "The Current State of Samba," including why the Common Internet File System protocol is about to become a lot more important to everyone, even those of us who only use Linux.

Doors open at 6:30 PM at our Mountain View campus; guests should plan to sign in at Building 43 reception upon arrival. Refreshments will be served and anyone is most welcome to attend! Jeremy's presentation will also be taped and published on Google Video.

For those of you who were not able to attend Ian Lance Taylor's recent talk "GCC: Current Topics and Future Directions," you can check out the video.

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Google APIS at SPA 2007

Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Google Checkout Team

On Monday, March 26th, I will present a 75 minutes tutorial about Google APIs: Search, Advertising and Commerce at SPA 2007 in Cambridge, UK. I will talk about many APIs: AJAX Search, Maps, Google Data, AdWords, Checkout and Google Web Toolkit, and show some cool demos of what you can do with them. I'll post the slides on this blog after the conference.

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Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Ian Lance Taylor

Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team

Next Tuesday, February 27, the Open Source Developers @ Google Speakers Series will welcome Ian Lance Taylor, prolific contributor to GCC and author of the popular Taylor UUCP package. Ian's presentation, "GCC: Current Topics and Future Directions," will give the audience insight into both the current trends in GCC development and how Google's GCC team is helping these efforts.

Doors open at 6:30 PM at our Corporate Headquarters; guests should plan to sign in at Building 43 reception upon arrival. Refreshments will be served and anyone is most welcome to attend! Ian's presentation will also be taped and published on Google Video.

For those of you who were not able to attend Bram Moolenaar's recent talk "Seven habits for effective text editing, 2.0," you can check out the video.

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Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Bram Moolenaar

Bram Moolenaar, creator of the Vim text editor and Software Engineer in Google's Zurich office, will be visiting our Mountain View headquarters on Tuesday, February 13th to discuss the "Seven habits for effective text editing, 2.0." Bram's presentation will give an overview of several ways to effectively use Vim to edit programs, structured text and documentation.

Please join us for Bram's presentation if you're in the area. Doors will open at 6:30 PM and Bram will begin speaking at 7:00 PM. Refreshments will be served; please plan to sign in at Building 41 reception when you arrive.

For those of you who were unable to attend the last session of the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series, you can check out the video and slides from Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick's talk on "How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)."

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Mike Pinkerton on Camino & More

For those of you who weren't able to attend the last Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series session, you can check out the video of Mike Pinkerton's talk on Camino.

And if you should find yourself in the Mountain View, California area this evening, please do stop by for Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick's presentation on "How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)."

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Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick

Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, two of the engineers behind our project hosting service, will be joining us this week to discuss "How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)." Based on their experiences with the Apache, Subversion and other open source projects, Ben and Fitz will cover effective ways of dealing with difficult people who join your community.

Please feel free to join us for the presentation this Thursday, January 25th at our Corporate Headquarters in Mountain View. Doors will open at 6:30 PM and refreshments will be served. Ben and Fitz will begin speaking at 7:00 PM. Please plan to sign in at Building 41 reception when you arrive.

We hope to see you there!

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Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Mike Pinkerton

On Wednesday, January 10th, we'll be welcoming Mike Pinkerton for the third instance of the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series.  Mike, lead developer for Camino, will discuss the past, present & future of the project, as well as lessons learned from Mozilla and the community.

Please feel free to join us at our Corporate Headquarters in Mountain View, CA at 7:00 PM for Mike's talk. Doors open at 6:30 PM, and refreshments will be served; please plan to sign in at Building 41 reception when you arrive. We hope to see you there!

For those unable to attend the December 2006 session, you can check out the video of Angela Byron, Hannes Papenberg and Laurens Vandeput presenting on Drupal, Joomla! and Google Summer of Code. The presentation contains great material on GSoC from the student perspective, which will be valuable for potential mentors and students alike.

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