Everyone knows Google crawls websites - but did you know they also crawl your source code? What's out there? How many projects are open sourced in my language? Under my preferred license? For my industry?
After crawling over 5 billion lines, Google knows and DiBona tells all - and why not, it's Your Code.
Worthwhile for the open source enthusiast or the merely curious, DiBona provides a fast-paced overview of the state of the open source Net. What are Google's intentions and tactics with regard to open source projects? How reliable are the numbers? DiBona deftly covers it all. To profile the dramatic rise of open source projects, he characterizes the historical growth in various forms of OS licenses with recent year-over-year comparisons.
He closes with a spin on a venerable nerd-party game: what's the most popular (open source) language? The competition is fierce and the results might just surprise you.
Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector programs manager at Mountain View, Ca. based Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches. In the public sector space, he looks after Google Moderator, the polling locations API. Additionally, he is on the board of Our Good Works, a non-profit that looks after the volunteer matching website Allforgood.org.
Mr. DiBona is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, Ca. based social networking firm.
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