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.

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.

(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.

As many of you may know, Python is one of the official languages here at Google.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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