Open Source at Google (Changelog Interviews #245)

Will Norris (Engineering Manager at Google’s Open Source office) joined the show to talk about their new release of the Google Open Source website as well as the release of Google’s internal documentation on how they do open source. Nearly 70 pages of documentation have been made public under creative commons license for the world to use. We talked about the backstory of Google’s Open Source office, their philosophy on OSS, their involvement in the TODO group, and much more.

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Featuring:

• Will Norris – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• A New Home for Google Open Source
• Google Open Source - Bringing better technology to the world by promoting open source.
• Google Open Source docs
• TODO - Talk openly, develop openly
• GitHub now lets its workers keep the IP when they use company resources for personal projects
• Chris DiBona
• Check out the Project Metadata project Will mentioned during the show
• The Changelog #211: Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce
• Google on GitHub
• David Recordon on Changelog.com

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