It's here: the Google Highly Open Participation Contest
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| The Google Summer of Code program has been a joint labor of love between
| Google and the open source community for the past three years, and the
| results have been spectacular: hundreds of college students have been
| introduced to open source software, thousands of people across the globe have
| begun development together and millions of lines of open code have been
| produced, 4 million last year alone.
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http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/11/its-here-google-highly-open.html
The Importance of Open Source Governance in Mitigating Risk
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| Best practices for managing risk when developing an effective open source
| policy
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http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/460562_p.htm
Open source participation as an IT investment
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| It strikes me as interesting that enterprises are being sold open source
| primarily on the premise that the availability of source code directly
| translates into flexibility with little-to-no mention of how the model is
| capable of generating novel ways of creating and maintaining technology. This
| is, at once, both a travesty and an invaluable source of opportunity, as the
| companies which step to exploratory forefront will be the ones that are first
| to harness the next wave of extreme competitive advantage.
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http://alexfletcher.typepad.com/all_bets_off/2007/11/how-open-source.html
Related (Google-funded FLOSS):
Amarok's Summer of Code Review
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| Read on to learn about two innovative additions to the Amarok project.
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http://dot.kde.org/1190246519/
Hey charger! OLPC gets power boost from Aussie coder
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| A 21-year-old Australian is playing a key part in developing the charger unit
| for the XO-1 -- the laptop which is the center of the One Laptop Per Child
| project.
|
| [...]
|
| According to it's website, GSoC aims to "get more open source created and
| released for the benefit of all", and requires students to licence all GSoC
| code under a licence acceptable to their host organisation.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=193757623&rid=-50
New Compiz Fusion Effects
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| A new Google Summer-of-Code plugin has gone into the repositories,
| called ‘colorfilter’ by iXce. This allows you to change certain colors to
| other colors by the use of pixel shaders. You can toggle color filtering for
| specific windows or the entire screen. Colorfilters are loaded via special
| color filter files.
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http://thelinuxmovement.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-compiz-fusion-effects.html
Linux powers $50 wireless mesh router
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| Meraki was founded by CEO Sanjit Biswas, and is based in Mountain
| View, Calif. In February, it closed a $5 million funding round led
| by Google and Sequoia Capital.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4963484100.html
Google Summer of Code
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| Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been
| announced! We accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of
| nearly 6,200 applications.
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http://code.google.com/soc/#a
Google Launches "Google Developer Day"
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| The intention behind Google Developer Day sounds somewhat similar to "Hack
| Day" -- an annual one day gathering that rival Yahoo has been hosting in
| its Sunnyvale, California abode inviting software developers to get
| together and experiment with Yahoo applications.
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http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/news/psecom,id,15238,srn,4,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html
http://tinyurl.com/2vhyu3
Google Grants - Free Advertising for Open Source Non-profits
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| Programs like Google Summer of Code can really help raise awareness of
| your project, but you may want to learn about another Google program
| that may be able to help give your project more visibility.
|
| The Google Grants program, currently in beta release, uses Google
| AdWords to help nonprofits spread their messages to a wider audience
| by providing them with free advertising on Google.com.
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http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-grants-free-advertising-for-open.html
http://tinyurl.com/34py7c
(Google) Speaking of Summer
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| Google Summer of CodeTM 2007 is on! Last year, Google funded over
| 600 students in 93 countries to work with 100 open source groups.
| We're extremely happy to announce that we'll be holding Google
| Summer of Code again this year.
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http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/02/speaking-of-summer.html
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