Cross-posted from the Official Open-Source at Google Blog.

Today marks the start of the 2011 Google Summer of Code student application period.

Google Summer of Code is a global program where university students are given a stipend to write code for open source projects over a three month period. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted students are paired with a mentor from the participating projects, gaining exposure to real-world software development and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.

Google Summer of Code is a highly competitive program with a limited number of students being accepted.

Hello WWW 2011 attendees

Global members of our technical team, from New York to Tel Aviv, are in Hyderabad this week for the World Wide Web 2011 conference to demonstrate our commitment to advancing the state of the web.

You can follow what Google is doing during WWW week on Twitter via messages with hashtag: #googlewww11.

(Cross-posted from the Google.org Blog)

Like the rest of the world, we’ve been transfixed by the images and news coming out of the northeastern part of Japan over the past six days. Our hearts go out to those who have been affected by this devastation and we’re deeply grateful to those who are working to keep us safe. In the meantime, Googlers in Japan and elsewhere around the world have been working around the clock to try and help improve the flow of information.

As many of you may know, Python is one of the official languages here at Google. Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is a Googler too—so naturally we’re thrilled to be supporting PyCon 2011 USA, the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. The PyCon conference days will be March 11th to the 13th, preceded by two tutorial days, March 9th and 10th.

For those of you who were quick to register for Google I/O, we thank you for continuing to support our developer initiatives--this year's I/O is slated to be one of our best yet. For the rest of our developers, we weren’t kidding when we told you we <3 our developers.

Starting Wednesday, March 16, we will be launching Last Call for Google I/O: A contest that spans 10 days, 10 developer challenges and 100 chances to win tickets to attend the now-sold-out Google I/O 2011.

Here’s how it works.

Due to the earthquake in Japan's Tohoku and Kanto regions, both qualifying and final rounds of Code Jam Japan have been postponed.  We will announce the contest dates at a later date, possibly May 2011 but to be decided. Our prayers are with those who have been affected by this tragedy.

Google invites people interested in Cloud Computing and Site Reliability Engineering to a Tech Talk at the Dublin office on March 24th. This will be followed by office tours in the new building and “unconferece” slots, where the invitees can give short spur-of-the-moment interactive talks. The space is limited and registration is required. 

The Talk will be held in our brand new office in Grand Canal Plaza.

Google Code Jam Japan is now open for registration! Code Jam is an annual programming competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time, using the programming language of their choice. This year, Googlers in the Tokyo office came up with a unique set of problems and prepared a fully internationalized contest UI, all in Japanese.

We’ve endorsed seven standout women in research to attend the World Wide Web Conference 2011, hosted in the vibrant and historic city of Hyderabad, India, March 28 - April 1. We’re recognizing this global group of PhD students, named below, with conference travel awards for their unique work in web-related technology.
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