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Google Launches Google Code
ibjhb writes "Google is at it again and has launched Google Code. It appears to be "Google's place for Open Source software". " Can't say that I'm surprised that our old friend (and former Slashdot Author) Chris DiBona is working on this one. They have links to several open source projects, as well as to Google API information.
It looks like rather than try to reinvent the wheel, they are utilizing SourceForge for hosting their code. It's nice to see that they aren't suffering from "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
Google Code FAQ: http://code.google.com/faq.html/
Code.google.com is our site for external developers interested in Google-related development. It's where we'll publish free source code and lists of our API services. A lot of people worked together to both prepare source code for release and prepare code.google.com for launch and ongoing maintenance. We really care about free and open source software (F/OSS) at Google, and this site is one aspect of that affection.
Read the rest of the FAQ: http://code.google.com/faq.html/
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When I first read the article blurb, I thought it meant Google was announcing some sort of source code repository, like SourceForge. Instead, it's a listing of their various open source projects.
That's cool, certainly, but nothing terribly exciting. Isn't this stuff that's already been floating around on the Google website? Or is this a quick-and-dirty attempt to match developer.yahoo.com, which still looks to be more capable.
concrete5: a cms made for marketing, but strong enough for geeks.
"Does this 20% time come out of the normal 40hr/week thing (and for that matter, do these engineers work 40/week or are they doing 100/week and get 20% time out of that)?"
It's one day a week, so that's 20% of working days, not hours.
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
Are you referring to adding "site:sourceforge.net" to your search terms, like this?
As I understand it, it's one day a week and Google owns the IP. It's basically like free play in kindergarden.
Don't forget that there's already Google Linux and Google BSD. Not quite what you're asking for, but a little closer.
And Google Labs has Google Personalized Search where you can flag open source as a topic of interest.
That's because I want to see how things go in all the projects. Believe me when I tell you that it's not the Chris DiBona show. No one would watch... Chris DiBona
Co-Editor, Open Sources
Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.
Why is it that people think this guy is great? He typically does NOT do a good or even acceptable job on anything he manages.
Chris DiBona is *the* guy that single-handedly killed themes.org.
For those of you who have not been around long enough to remember themes.org it was a wonderful, one-stop-shop for themes for everything. Until Chris took over that is, and then it went into a year and a half long dormant period where no updates were allowed by themers, only to eventually be folded into freshmeat when it was apparent that Chris was never going to deliver.
How the hell did he ever get hired by Google?
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