Get ready for Google I/O: Program lineup revealed

Developers, get ready! Google I/O is just around the corner, kicking off live from Mountain View with the Google keynote on Tuesday, May 14 at 10 am PT, followed by the Developer keynote at 1:30 pm PT.

But the learning doesn’t stop there. Mark your calendars for May 16 at 8 am PT when we’ll be releasing over 150 technical deep dives, demos, codelabs, and more on-demand. If you register online, you can start building your 'My I/O' agenda today.

Here's a sneak peek at some of the exciting highlights from the I/O program preview:

Unlocking the power of AI: The Gemini era unlocks a new frontier for developers. We'll showcase the newest features in the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Gemma. Discover cutting-edge pre-trained models from Kaggle, and delve into Google's open-source libraries like Keras and JAX.

Android: A developer's playground: Get the latest updates on everything Android! We'll cover groundbreaking advancements in generative AI, the highly anticipated Android 15, innovative form factors, and the latest tools and libraries in the Jetpack and Compose ecosystem. Plus, discover how to optimize performance and streamline your development workflow.

Building beautiful and functional web experiences: We’ll cover Baseline updates, a revolutionary tool that empowers developers with a clear understanding of web features and API interoperability. With Baseline, you'll have access to real-time information on popular developer resource sites like MDN, Can I Use, and web.dev.

The future of ChromeOS: Get a glimpse into the exciting future of ChromeOS. We'll discuss the developer-centric investments we're making in distribution, app capabilities, and operating system integrations. Discover how our partners are shaping the future of Chromebooks and delivering world-class user experiences.

This is just a taste of what's in store at Google I/O. Stay tuned for more updates, and get ready to be a part of the future.

Don't forget to mark your calendars and register for Google I/O today!

Posted by Timothy Jordan – Director, Developer Relations and Open Source

The Power of Open Source

At the day 1 keynote of Open Source Summit North America, Timothy Jordan, Director of Developer Relations and Open Source at Google, will talk about the landscape of open source and AI, the importance of a responsible approach, and the transformative impact of community collaboration. In anticipation of this talk, let’s break down the AI open source ecosystem, and how Google approaches it.

Google believes in the power of open technology to drive innovation and benefit everyone. It fosters creativity and collaboration, while ensuring technology access for developers and allowing customization to fit unique use cases. Open source licenses give developers full creative autonomy without restriction. It is this ecosystem of open source and open technology, shaped by ML frameworks like TensorFlow, Keras, and JAX, that has enabled so many incredible advances in AI in recent years.

The open source community has been in discussion on how to apply the Open Source Definition to carry forward the open principles of the OSD while addressing concepts like derived work and author attribution in AI. During Timothy’s keynote, he’ll speak to his own philosophy on Open Source and AI, and share how his assumptions about how we apply open source to AI have evolved. The immediate availability of AI models, powered by the open source ecosystem of ML frameworks, means it’s more important than ever that we establish a shared definition for open source and AI.

While that definition is in development, at Google we’re using precise language to describe our openly available models like Gemma. The definition and license is only one part of this open ML/AI future; advancements in safety tooling, policies, and developer knowledge are all part of creating a responsible and open future for AI. Those advancements are all fueled by a dedication to collaboration. Whether sharing innovations and improvements with the community, or having conversations with policymakers and open source leaders, collaboration is key to a responsible approach to AI in the open ecosystem. AI can only be safe and responsible if everyone’s experiences and perspectives are brought to the forefront as it’s built.

To demonstrate how open source has made AI readily available, Timothy will also take the audience through a “low code” demo of how to run large language models in-browser for web applications. Using MediaPipe, the LLM Inference API, and Gemma, users can quickly add genAI capabilities like document summarization and text generation.

Join us at Open Source Summit North America for this keynote, and visit opensource.google to learn more.

By the Google Open Source team

Google Summer of Code 2024 Mentor Organization Applications Now Open

We are excited to announce that open source projects and organizations can now apply to participate as mentor organizations in the 2024 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program. Applications for organizations will close on February 6, 2024 at 18:00 UTC.

We are celebrating a big milestone as we head into our 20th year of Google Summer of Code this year! In 2024 we are adding a third project size option which you can read more about in our announcement blog post.

Does your open source project want to learn more about becoming a mentor organization? Visit the program site and read the mentor guide to learn what it means to be a mentor organization and how to prepare your community (hint: have plenty of excited, dedicated mentors and well thought out project ideas!).

We welcome all types of organizations and are very eager to involve first-time mentor orgs in GSoC. We encourage new organizations to get a referral from experienced organizations that think they would be a good fit to participate in GSoC.

The open source projects that participate in GSoC as mentor organizations span many fields including those doing interesting work in AI/ML, security, cloud, development tools, science, medicine, data, media, and more! Projects can range from being relatively new (about 2 years old) to well established projects that started over 20 years ago. We welcome open source projects big, small, and everything in between.

This year we are looking to bring more open source projects in the AI/ML field into GSoC 2024. If your project is in the artificial intelligence or machine learning fields please chat with your community and see if you would be interested in applying to GSoC 2024.

One thing to remember is that open source projects wishing to apply need to have a solid community; the goal of GSoC is to bring new contributors into established and welcoming communities. While you don’t have to have 50+ community members, the project also can’t have as few as three people.

You can apply to be a mentor organization for GSoC starting today on the program site. The deadline to apply is February 6, 2024 at 18:00 UTC. We will publicly announce the organizations chosen for GSoC 2024 on February 21st.

Please visit the program site for more information on how to apply and review the detailed timeline for important deadlines. We also encourage you to check out the Mentor Guide, our ‘Intro to Google Summer of Code’ video, and our short video on why open source projects are excited to be a part of the GSoC program.

Good luck to all open source mentor organization applicants!

By Stephanie Taylor, Program Manager – Google Open Source Programs Office

Google Open Source Peer Bonus program announces second group of 2023 winners

We are excited to announce the second group of winners for the 2023 Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program! This program recognizes external open source contributors who have been nominated by Googlers for their exceptional contributions to open source projects.

The Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program is a key part of Google's ongoing commitment to open source software. By supporting the development and growth of open source projects, Google is fostering a more collaborative and innovative software ecosystem that benefits everyone.

This cycle's Open Source Peer Bonus Program received 163 nominations and winners come from 35 different countries around the world, reflecting the program's global reach and the immense impact of open source software. Community collaboration is a key driver of innovation and progress, and we are honored to be able to support and celebrate the contributions of these talented individuals from around the world through this program.

We would like to extend our congratulations to the winners! Included below are those who have agreed to be named publicly.

Winner	Open Source Project
Tim Dettmers	8-bit CUDA functions for PyTorch
Odin Asbjørnsen	Accompanist
Lazarus Akelo	Android FHIR
Khyati Vyas	Android FHIR
Fikri Milano	Android FHIR
Veyndan Stuart	AndroidX
Alex Van Boxel	Apache Beam
Dezső Biczó	Apigee Edge Drupal module
Felix Yan	Arch Linux
Gerlof Langeveld	atop
Fabian Meumertzheim	Bazel
Keith Smiley	Bazel
Andre Brisco	Bazel Build Rules for Rust
Cecil Curry	beartype
Paul Marcombes	bigfunctions
Lucas Yuji Yoshimine	Camposer
Anita Ihuman	CHAOSS
Jesper van den Ende	Chrome DevTools
Aboobacker MK	CircuitVerse.org
Aaron Ballman	Clang
Alejandra González	Clippy
Catherine Flores	Clippy
Rajasekhar Kategaru	Compose Actors
Olivier Charrez	comprehensive-rust
John O'Reilly	Confetti
James DeFelice	container-storage-interface
Akihiro Suda	containerd, runc, OCI specs, Docker, Kubernetes
Neil Bowers	CPAN
Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn	CRIU
Daniel Stenberg	curl
Ryosuke TOKUAMI	Dataform
Salvatore Bonaccorso	Debian
Moritz Muehlenhoff	Debian
Sylvestre Ledru	Debian, LLVM
Andreas Deininger	Docsy
Róbert Fekete	Docsy
David Sherret	dprint
Justin Grant	ECMAScript Time Zone Canonicalization Proposal
Chris White	EditorConfig
Charles Schlosser	Eigen
Daniel Roe	Elk - Mastodon Client
Christopher Quadflieg	FakerJS
Ostap Taran	Firebase Apple SDK
Frederik Seiffert	Firebase C++ SDK
Juraj Čarnogurský	firebase-tools
Callum Moffat	Flutter
Anton Borries	Flutter
Tomasz Gucio	Flutter
Chinmoy Chakraborty	Flutter
Daniil Lipatkin	Flutter
Tobias Löfstrand	Flutter go_router package
Ole André Vadla Ravnås	Frida
Jaeyoon Choi	Fuchsia
Jeuk Kim	Fuchsia
Dongjin Kim	Fuchsia
Seokhwan Kim	Fuchsia
Marcel Böhme	FuzzBench
Md Awsafur Rahman	GCViT-tf, TransUNet-tf,Kaggle
Qiusheng Wu	GEEMap
Karsten Ohme	GlobalPlatform
Sacha Chua	GNU Emacs
Austen Novis	Goblet
Tiago Temporin	Golang
Josh van Leeuwen	Google Certificate Authority Service Issuer for cert-manager
Dustin Walker	google-cloud-go
Parth Patel	GUAC
Kevin Conner	GUAC
Dejan Bosanac	GUAC
Jendrik Johannes	Guava
Chao Sun	Hive, Spark
Sean Eddy	hmmer
Paulus Schoutsen	Home Assistant
Timo Lassmann	Kalign
Stephen Augustus	Kubernetes
Vyom Yadav	Kubernetes
Meha Bhalodiya	Kubernetes
Madhav Jivrajani	Kubernetes
Priyanka Saggu	Kubernetes
DANIEL FINNERAN	kubeVIP
Junfeng Li	LanguageClient-neovim
Andrea Fioraldi	LibAFL
Dongjia Zhang	LibAFL
Addison Crump	LibAFL
Yuan Tong	libavif
Gustavo A. R. Silva	Linux kernel
Mathieu Desnoyers	Linux kernel
Nathan Chancellor	Linux Kernel, LLVM
Gábor Horváth	LLVM / Clang
Martin Donath	Material for MkDocs
Jussi Pakkanen	Meson Build System
Amos Wenger	Mevi
Anders F Björklund	minikube
Maksim Levental	MLIR
Andrzej Warzynski	MLIR, IREE
Arnaud Ferraris	Mobian
Rui Ueyama	mold
Ryan Lahfa	nixpkgs
Simon Marquis	Now in Android
William Cheng	OpenAPI Generator
Kim O'Sullivan	OpenFIPS201
Yigakpoa Laura Ikpae	Oppia
Aanuoluwapo Adeoti	Oppia
Philippe Antoine	oss-fuzz
Tornike Kurdadze	Pinput
Andrey Sitnik	Postcss (and others: Autoprefixer, postcss, browserslist, logux)
Marc Gravell	protobuf-net
Jean Abou Samra	Pygments
Qiming Sun	PySCF
Trey Hunner	Python
Will Constable	PyTorch/XLA
Jay Berkenbilt	qpdf
Ahmed El-Helw	Quran App for Android
Jan Gorecki	Reproducible benchmark of database-like ops
Ralf Jung	Rust
Frank Steffahn	Rust, ICU4X
Bhaarat Krishnan	Serverless Web APIs Workshop
Maximilian Keppeler	Sheets-Compose-Dialogs
Cory LaViska	Shoelace
Carlos Panato	Sigstore
Keith Zantow	spdx/tools-golang
Hayley Patton	Steel Bank Common Lisp
Qamar Safadi	Sunflower
Victor Julien	Suricata
Eyoel Defare	textfield_tags
Giedrius Statkevičius	Thanos
Michael Park	The Good Docs Project
Douglas Theobald	Theseus
David Blevins	Tomee
Anthony Fu	Vitest
Ryuta Mizuno	Volcago
Nicolò Ribaudo	WHATWG HTML Living Standard; ECMAScript Language Specification
Antoine Martin	xpra
Toru Komatsu	youki

We are incredibly proud of all of the nominees for their outstanding contributions to open source, and we look forward to seeing even more amazing contributions in the years to come. An additional thanks to Maria Tabak who has helped to lay the groundwork and management of this program for the past 5 years!

By Mike Bufano, Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program Lead