Google announces a repository for all its Open Source offerings
Open
source coders rejoice -- Google has released a ton of helpful resources
Google has launched a new website -- opensource.google.com -- that serves as a central
repository for all of their open source programs and initiatives, with
information on various Google open source products as well as useful resources
that coders and companies can use on their open source journey.
One
of the key areas of this website is the Projects section, which is a visual
directory of all Google open source projects the company is actively
supporting. Implemented in the form of a tag cloud, you simply click or tap the
icons of a particular open source product you’re interested in, which takes you
directly to a page from where you can download its source code from Google’s
own Git code hosting service.
Some
of the projects hosted here include the Android device operating system, their
machine learning library TensorFlow, the Chromium web browser and more.
There
is also a comprehensive section that contains documentation on the actual
processes that the company uses internally when working on open source
projects. These documents provide information on how Google coders release code
that becomes part of full-blown Google products, the methods that the company
uses to track the numerous open source packages into their projects, and
details about programs that are conducted both inside and outside the company
to support open source groups.
The
site also provides details pertaining to their community initiatives in
promoting open source, including real world events such as Google Summer of
Code where university students can spend their summers working on open source
technologies, Google Code-in which is a global online contest that introduce
teens to open source technologies, and details about the affiliate programs
they operate within this space.
Source | Daily News Analysis | 29
March 2017
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