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seo Google Code-in 2012 contest starts today 2013
Seo Master present to you: By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Cross-posted with the Google Open Source Blog
… and Go! The Google Code-in 2012 contest has officially started! If you are a 13-17 year old pre-university (high school) student interested in computer science who would like to learn more about open source software development while earning cool prizes, sign up on our program site today. Students have the opportunity to select tasks from 5 categories (coding, documentation/training, quality assurance, research/outreach and user interface) that are designed by 10 open source organizations that will provide mentors for the students. Students earn certificates, t-shirts and Grand Prize Winners will win a trip for themselves and a parent or legal guardian to Google’s Mountain View California campus in 2013. Each of the 10 open source organizations will choose 2 of the 5 students that complete the most tasks with their organization as their Grand Prize Winners for a total of 20 Grand Prize Winners for Google Code-in 2012- that’s twice as many Grand Prize Winners as last year!
Last year, 542 students from 56 countries competed in the contest: this year you could be one of the students from around the world learning new skills and making new friends by experiencing the awesome world of open source development.
If you’d like to sign up, please review the Contest Rules and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on our program site. You can join our discussion list to ask any other questions. For details on important dates for the contest, see the calendar. If you meet the eligibility requirements you can create your account on the program site and start claiming tasks today!
Join us today, Nov 26th, as members of Google’s Open Source Programs Office host a Live Google Code-in Hangout on Air on the Google Education page at 2pm PST to discuss details of the contest and to answer questions from viewers. If you can’t make the live Hangout on Air it will be recorded and posted on our Google Open Source Student Programs YouTube Channel within a couple of days.
The contest ends on January 14, 2013 so start claiming tasks today. Good luck and have fun!
Written by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor
2013, By: Seo Master
Cross-posted with the Google Open Source Blog
… and Go! The Google Code-in 2012 contest has officially started! If you are a 13-17 year old pre-university (high school) student interested in computer science who would like to learn more about open source software development while earning cool prizes, sign up on our program site today. Students have the opportunity to select tasks from 5 categories (coding, documentation/training, quality assurance, research/outreach and user interface) that are designed by 10 open source organizations that will provide mentors for the students. Students earn certificates, t-shirts and Grand Prize Winners will win a trip for themselves and a parent or legal guardian to Google’s Mountain View California campus in 2013. Each of the 10 open source organizations will choose 2 of the 5 students that complete the most tasks with their organization as their Grand Prize Winners for a total of 20 Grand Prize Winners for Google Code-in 2012- that’s twice as many Grand Prize Winners as last year!
Last year, 542 students from 56 countries competed in the contest: this year you could be one of the students from around the world learning new skills and making new friends by experiencing the awesome world of open source development.
If you’d like to sign up, please review the Contest Rules and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on our program site. You can join our discussion list to ask any other questions. For details on important dates for the contest, see the calendar. If you meet the eligibility requirements you can create your account on the program site and start claiming tasks today!
Join us today, Nov 26th, as members of Google’s Open Source Programs Office host a Live Google Code-in Hangout on Air on the Google Education page at 2pm PST to discuss details of the contest and to answer questions from viewers. If you can’t make the live Hangout on Air it will be recorded and posted on our Google Open Source Student Programs YouTube Channel within a couple of days.
The contest ends on January 14, 2013 so start claiming tasks today. Good luck and have fun!
Written by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Google Code-in contest for high school students starts this November 2013
Seo Master present to you: By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Cross-posted with the Google Open Source Blog
Today marks the launch of the third Google Code-in, an international contest introducing 13-17 year old pre-university students to the world of open source software development. The goal of the contest is to give students the opportunity to explore the many types of projects and tasks involved in open source software development. Globally, open source software development is becoming a major factor in all industries from governments, healthcare, and relief efforts to gaming and large tech companies.
When you hear the term “open source” do you ask yourself:
If you’ve wondered about any of these questions and are a pre-university student (age 13-17) then you should join in on the fun with the Google Code-in contest starting November 26, 2012.
From late November to mid January, students will be able to work with 10 open source projects on a variety of tasks. These projects have all successfully served as mentoring organizations working with university students in our Google Summer of Code program.
The types of tasks students will be working on will fall into the following categories:
Over the last two years we have had 904 students compete in the contest from 65 countries. This past January we announced the 10 Grand Prize Winners for the 2011 Google Code-in. In June, we flew the winners and a parent/legal guardian to Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters for a 5 day/4 night trip complete with an awards ceremony, talks with Google engineers, Google campus tour, and a full day of fun in San Francisco.
Visit the Frequently Asked Questions page on the Google Code-in site for more details on how to sign up and participate. Please help us spread the word to your friends around the globe. If you are a teacher who would like to encourage your students to participate, please send an email to our team at ospoteam@gmail.com. We would be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Stay tuned to the contest site and subscribe to our mailing list for more updates on the contest. We will announce the 10 open source organizations that will be participating in the contest on November 12. The Google Code-in contest starts on November 26, 2012, and we look forward to welcoming hundreds of students from around the world into the open source family.
Written by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor2013, By: Seo Master
Cross-posted with the Google Open Source Blog
Today marks the launch of the third Google Code-in, an international contest introducing 13-17 year old pre-university students to the world of open source software development. The goal of the contest is to give students the opportunity to explore the many types of projects and tasks involved in open source software development. Globally, open source software development is becoming a major factor in all industries from governments, healthcare, and relief efforts to gaming and large tech companies.
When you hear the term “open source” do you ask yourself:
- What exactly is open source?
- How can I get involved in open source software development if I’m just starting to learn how to code?
- What types of work do open source projects do?
- I’d like to work on open source but I’m not really a coder, what else can I do?
- I’ve never worked on a global project using IRC and chat groups: can someone help me?
If you’ve wondered about any of these questions and are a pre-university student (age 13-17) then you should join in on the fun with the Google Code-in contest starting November 26, 2012.
From late November to mid January, students will be able to work with 10 open source projects on a variety of tasks. These projects have all successfully served as mentoring organizations working with university students in our Google Summer of Code program.
The types of tasks students will be working on will fall into the following categories:
- Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
- Documentation/Training: Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
- Outreach/research: Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
- Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality
- User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction
Over the last two years we have had 904 students compete in the contest from 65 countries. This past January we announced the 10 Grand Prize Winners for the 2011 Google Code-in. In June, we flew the winners and a parent/legal guardian to Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters for a 5 day/4 night trip complete with an awards ceremony, talks with Google engineers, Google campus tour, and a full day of fun in San Francisco.
Visit the Frequently Asked Questions page on the Google Code-in site for more details on how to sign up and participate. Please help us spread the word to your friends around the globe. If you are a teacher who would like to encourage your students to participate, please send an email to our team at ospoteam@gmail.com. We would be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Stay tuned to the contest site and subscribe to our mailing list for more updates on the contest. We will announce the 10 open source organizations that will be participating in the contest on November 12. The Google Code-in contest starts on November 26, 2012, and we look forward to welcoming hundreds of students from around the world into the open source family.
Written by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor2013, By: Seo Master
seo Winners of the Google I/O Develop for Good global hackathon 2013
Seo Master present to you: 
By Anna de Paula Hanika, Google.org
Cross-posted with the Google.org Blog
This year during Google I/O more than 30,000 developers gathered at 350+ I/O Extended events in 172 countries around the world. While they came together to see the Nexus 7 unveiled and a death-defying Project Glass demo, we invited them to participate in the Develop for Good hackathon. Over the past couple of months we’ve been reviewing submissions and today are proud to share the winning team in each category.
Anna de Paula Hanika is a Product Marketing Manager on the Google.org team, currently focused on Google's Green and Giving efforts, and all things related to using technology to make the world a better place.
Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor2013, By: Seo Master
By Anna de Paula Hanika, Google.orgCross-posted with the Google.org Blog
This year during Google I/O more than 30,000 developers gathered at 350+ I/O Extended events in 172 countries around the world. While they came together to see the Nexus 7 unveiled and a death-defying Project Glass demo, we invited them to participate in the Develop for Good hackathon. Over the past couple of months we’ve been reviewing submissions and today are proud to share the winning team in each category.
Google Green - Help us all be a little bit greener!
A team from the GDG Karachi Extended event in Pakistan developed a concept for ‘Green It’ — a Google+ based app that would allow users to report local environmental concerns, gain validation of the issue via nearby smartphone users and aggregate reports in a public online interface. Users would be encouraged to participate through a rewards system.
Google Ideas - Conflict reporting for blackout situations in repressive regimes
A team from the San Francisco Extended event developed a product concept for Silent Lens; an Android application which would allow citizens to safely send encrypted image-based messages over multi-modal ad-hoc mesh networks. The app would allow citizens to anonymously report issues or violence in repressive regimes when other phone or Internet connections may be temporarily limited, or intermittently severed.
Google Politics & Elections - Citizen Engagement for Politics & Elections
A team from the Lagos GDG I/O Extended event at the Co Creation Hub in Nigeria built a prototype for Assembly Bills — a web based platform that can help Nigerian citizens provide input on legislative bills and policy remotely, without having to fly across the country to the capital of Lagos to provide input in person, as is currently necessary. Keep an eye out for their new site!
Winning teams received tickets to attend I/O 2013, along with the honorary title of "Google Developer for Good, 2012". Congratulations to the winners, and a huge thanks to all participants for their hard work. We look forward to seeing the winning teams build out their ideas!
Anna de Paula Hanika is a Product Marketing Manager on the Google.org team, currently focused on Google's Green and Giving efforts, and all things related to using technology to make the world a better place.
Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor2013, By: Seo Master
seo Google Code Jam Returns! 2013
Seo Master present to you: 
Given a 49x49 grid of numbers, can you place mines in the cells in such a way that each number represents the number of mines in its 3x3 sub-grid (the cell itself and its 8 immediate neighbors)? Find the maximum number of mines that could end up in the middle row of the grid.
Intrigued? Think you can solve it with a clever algorithm? Here at Google, we know how thrilling it can be to encounter a challenge and then overcome it by coding up a creative solution. Since 2003, we've been privileged to share that experience with a global community of computer programmers through our annual programming competition, Google Code Jam.
We're excited to announce Google Code Jam 2009, powered by Google App Engine. Join the fun and compete in several 2½-hour online rounds, attacking three to four difficult algorithmic problems during each round. You may use your favorite programming languages and tools to code up a solution. When ready, run your solution against our fiendish test data. The algorithm needs to be right, and it needs to be efficient: when N=10000, O(N3) won't cut it!
If you're up to the challenge, visit the Google Code Jam site to register and read the rules. Most importantly, you can practice on the problems from last year's contest, so you are in shape when the qualification round starts on September 2. You could be one of the top 25 competitors who will be flown to our Mountain View headquarters to match wits for the $5,000 first prize, and the title of Code Jam champion!
P.S. Think you can solve our "Mine Layer" problem? Try it out on the Code Jam website!
2013, By: Seo Master
Given a 49x49 grid of numbers, can you place mines in the cells in such a way that each number represents the number of mines in its 3x3 sub-grid (the cell itself and its 8 immediate neighbors)? Find the maximum number of mines that could end up in the middle row of the grid. Intrigued? Think you can solve it with a clever algorithm? Here at Google, we know how thrilling it can be to encounter a challenge and then overcome it by coding up a creative solution. Since 2003, we've been privileged to share that experience with a global community of computer programmers through our annual programming competition, Google Code Jam.
We're excited to announce Google Code Jam 2009, powered by Google App Engine. Join the fun and compete in several 2½-hour online rounds, attacking three to four difficult algorithmic problems during each round. You may use your favorite programming languages and tools to code up a solution. When ready, run your solution against our fiendish test data. The algorithm needs to be right, and it needs to be efficient: when N=10000, O(N3) won't cut it!
If you're up to the challenge, visit the Google Code Jam site to register and read the rules. Most importantly, you can practice on the problems from last year's contest, so you are in shape when the qualification round starts on September 2. You could be one of the top 25 competitors who will be flown to our Mountain View headquarters to match wits for the $5,000 first prize, and the title of Code Jam champion!
P.S. Think you can solve our "Mine Layer" problem? Try it out on the Code Jam website!
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Native Client Security Contest: The results are in! 2013
Seo Master present to you: A few months ago, we challenged you to discover exploits in the Native Client system and more than 600 of you decided to take us up on our invitation. We're very pleased with the results: participants found bugs that enabled some really clever exploits, but nothing that pointed to a fundamental flaw in the design of Native Client. Our judges reviewed all entries very carefully and have selected five teams as the winners of the Native Client Security Contest.
The big winner of the contest was the team "Beached As", consisting of IBM researcher Mark Dowd and independent researcher Ben Hawkes. "Beached As" reported 12 valid issues, including vulnerabilities in the validator and multiple type-confusion attacks. The team "CJETM" (Chris Rohlf, Jason Carpenter, Eric Monti — all security professionals with Matasano Security) came in second by reporting three issues with a common theme of memory related defects, including an uninitialized vtable entry, an exception condition during new(), and a double delete bug. Gabriel Campana from Sogeti ESEC R&D Labs was selected as the third place, while for the fourth and fifth place we had a tie between independent researcher Daiki Fukumori and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student Alex Radocea. You can find a listing of all the issues the teams submitted at the Native Client Security Contest site.
The winners of the Native Client Security Contest, Team "Beached As"
Mark Dowd (left) and Ben Hawkes (right)
Winning teams were attracted to the contest by the potential of the Native Client technology. Mark Dowd, member of the winning team "Beached As", commented, "When I saw the press release announcing the product, I was intrigued by some of the ideas mentioned in the article. After reviewing the architecture a little, I thought the project adopted a novel approach to solving the problem of running native code securely, and was keen to take a closer look." Curiosity about what the technology could achieve also motivated the CJETM team, according to Chris Rohlf.
The real-world relevance of Native Client made this contest more interesting and challenging for participants. Contestant Alex Radocea stated, "Unlike most security challenges out there, the set of problems were not crafted. The tasks at hand were real and complex, as the real world is. I have no doubt that many unknown people eyed the code or attacked the applications and, frustratingly, found absolutely nothing wrong." Mark Dowd agreed: "Our goal was to create a convincing lead, to try and take the victory, and I think we did that. Having said that, the field was not soft. There were some tough contestants who were able to uncover a variety of interesting vulnerabilities."
We would like to thank all the contestants, the jury chair Ed Felten and all the security experts that judged the contest for helping us improve the security of our system. This contest helped us discover implementation errors in Native Client and some areas of our codebase we need to spend more time reviewing. More importantly, that no major architectural flaws were found provides evidence that Native Client can be made safe enough for widespread use. Toward that end, we're implementing additional security measures, such as an outer sandbox, but you can help by continuing to file bugs in Native Client. Community support and scrutiny has helped and will continue to help make Native Client more useful and more secure.
2013, By: Seo Master
The big winner of the contest was the team "Beached As", consisting of IBM researcher Mark Dowd and independent researcher Ben Hawkes. "Beached As" reported 12 valid issues, including vulnerabilities in the validator and multiple type-confusion attacks. The team "CJETM" (Chris Rohlf, Jason Carpenter, Eric Monti — all security professionals with Matasano Security) came in second by reporting three issues with a common theme of memory related defects, including an uninitialized vtable entry, an exception condition during new(), and a double delete bug. Gabriel Campana from Sogeti ESEC R&D Labs was selected as the third place, while for the fourth and fifth place we had a tie between independent researcher Daiki Fukumori and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student Alex Radocea. You can find a listing of all the issues the teams submitted at the Native Client Security Contest site.
The winners of the Native Client Security Contest, Team "Beached As"
Mark Dowd (left) and Ben Hawkes (right)
Winning teams were attracted to the contest by the potential of the Native Client technology. Mark Dowd, member of the winning team "Beached As", commented, "When I saw the press release announcing the product, I was intrigued by some of the ideas mentioned in the article. After reviewing the architecture a little, I thought the project adopted a novel approach to solving the problem of running native code securely, and was keen to take a closer look." Curiosity about what the technology could achieve also motivated the CJETM team, according to Chris Rohlf.
The real-world relevance of Native Client made this contest more interesting and challenging for participants. Contestant Alex Radocea stated, "Unlike most security challenges out there, the set of problems were not crafted. The tasks at hand were real and complex, as the real world is. I have no doubt that many unknown people eyed the code or attacked the applications and, frustratingly, found absolutely nothing wrong." Mark Dowd agreed: "Our goal was to create a convincing lead, to try and take the victory, and I think we did that. Having said that, the field was not soft. There were some tough contestants who were able to uncover a variety of interesting vulnerabilities."
We would like to thank all the contestants, the jury chair Ed Felten and all the security experts that judged the contest for helping us improve the security of our system. This contest helped us discover implementation errors in Native Client and some areas of our codebase we need to spend more time reviewing. More importantly, that no major architectural flaws were found provides evidence that Native Client can be made safe enough for widespread use. Toward that end, we're implementing additional security measures, such as an outer sandbox, but you can help by continuing to file bugs in Native Client. Community support and scrutiny has helped and will continue to help make Native Client more useful and more secure.2013, By: Seo Master
seo Develop for Good and have a chance to win tickets to I/O 2013! 2013
Seo Master present to you: 
By Anna de Paula Hanika, Google.org
Anna de Paula Hanika is a Product Marketing Manager on the Google.org team, currently focused on Google's Green and Giving efforts, and all things related to using technology to make the world a better place!
Posted by Ashleigh Rentz, Editor Emerita2013, By: Seo Master
By Anna de Paula Hanika, Google.org Would you like to use your coding skills to significantly improve the world, and have the chance to win tickets to Google I/O 2013 for your efforts? Google.org has joined forces with the I/O Extended team to bring you the "Develop for Good" Hackathon. We’re looking for hackers to tackle issues around repressive regimes, engaging citizens in politics and enabling us all to be greener!
Almost anyone can participate in the hackathon from just about anywhere in the world. Many of the Extended events are already hosting hackathons, so we encourage you to find an event near you or start your own. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, Google.org will be hosting a ‘Develop for Good’ hackathon at the San Francisco I/O Extended event.
Here are the three challenges developed by the Google teams:
- Google Ideas: Conflict reporting for blackout situations in repressive regimes.
- Google Politics & Elections: Citizen Engagement for Politics & Elections.
- Google Green: Help us all be a little bit greener!
Developers can start preparing, and even coding, right away and then bring their ideas to the Extended event Hackathons during I/O (though we welcome you to participate even if you’re unable to attend an event). Pencils down on Friday night—hacks must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. (PDT) on June 29, 2012 via this form.
After June 29th a team of Googlers will judge the submissions for each challenge. We will announce the winning hacks for each challenge by about August 1st, 2012. There will be one winning hack selected from each challenge area, and each will receive up to 5 tickets to I/O 2013, along with the honorary title of "Google Developer for Good, 2012". In addition, we’ll award one of the latest Chromebooks to each member of the team producing the best web app across all three challenges.
If you are interested in getting involved, we recommend signing up for an I/O Extended event near you and then checking with the organizer to see whether a hackathon is part of the agenda -- or hosting your own Extended event and hackathon!
Find further details of the challenges, prizes, submission guidelines and hackathon rules on the I/O Extended organizers' website.
Anna de Paula Hanika is a Product Marketing Manager on the Google.org team, currently focused on Google's Green and Giving efforts, and all things related to using technology to make the world a better place!
Posted by Ashleigh Rentz, Editor Emerita2013, By: Seo Master
seo The results are in: Hardcode, the secure coding contest for App Engine 2013
Seo Master present to you: 
By Eduardo Vela Nava, Security Team
This January, Google and SyScan announced a secure coding competition open to students from all over the world. While Google’s Summer of Code and Code-in encourage students to contribute to open source projects, Hardcode was a call for students who wanted to showcase their skills both in software development and security. Given the scope of today’s online threats, we think it’s incredibly important to practice secure coding habits early on. Hundreds of students from 25 countries and across five continents signed up to receive information about the competition, and over 100 teams participated.
During the preliminary online round, teams built applications on Google App Engine that were judged for both functionality and security. Five teams were then selected to participate in the final round at the SyScan 2013 security conference in Singapore, where they had to do the following: fix security bugs from the preliminary round, collaborate to develop an API standard to allow their applications to interoperate, implement the API, and finally, try to hack each other’s applications. To add to the challenge, many of the students balanced the competition with all of their school commitments.
We’re extremely impressed with the caliber of the contestants’ work. Everyone had a lot of fun, and we think these students have a bright future ahead of them. We are pleased to announce the final results of the 2013 Hardcode Competition:
1st Place: Team 0xC0DEBA5E
Vienna University of Technology, Austria (SGD $20,000)
2nd Place: Team Gridlock
Loyola School, Jamshedpur, India (SGD $15,000)
3rd Place: Team CeciliaSec
University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA (SGD $10,000)
Runner-up: Team AppDaptor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (SGD $5,000)
Runner-up: Team DesiCoders
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India (SGD $5,000)
Honorable Mention: Team Saviors of Middle Earth (withdrew due to school commitments)
Walt Whitman High School, Maryland, USA
A big congratulations to this very talented group of students!
Eduardo Vela Nava is a Tech Lead for Google's WOOPS (Web or Other Product Security) team, helping teams build safer products.
Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor
2013, By: Seo Master
By Eduardo Vela Nava, Security Team
This January, Google and SyScan announced a secure coding competition open to students from all over the world. While Google’s Summer of Code and Code-in encourage students to contribute to open source projects, Hardcode was a call for students who wanted to showcase their skills both in software development and security. Given the scope of today’s online threats, we think it’s incredibly important to practice secure coding habits early on. Hundreds of students from 25 countries and across five continents signed up to receive information about the competition, and over 100 teams participated.
During the preliminary online round, teams built applications on Google App Engine that were judged for both functionality and security. Five teams were then selected to participate in the final round at the SyScan 2013 security conference in Singapore, where they had to do the following: fix security bugs from the preliminary round, collaborate to develop an API standard to allow their applications to interoperate, implement the API, and finally, try to hack each other’s applications. To add to the challenge, many of the students balanced the competition with all of their school commitments.
We’re extremely impressed with the caliber of the contestants’ work. Everyone had a lot of fun, and we think these students have a bright future ahead of them. We are pleased to announce the final results of the 2013 Hardcode Competition:
1st Place: Team 0xC0DEBA5E
Vienna University of Technology, Austria (SGD $20,000)
- Daniel Marth
- Lukas Pfeifhofer
- Benedikt Wedenik
2nd Place: Team Gridlock
Loyola School, Jamshedpur, India (SGD $15,000)
3rd Place: Team CeciliaSec
University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA (SGD $10,000)
- Nathan Crandall
- Dane Pitkin
- Justin Rushing
Runner-up: Team AppDaptor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (SGD $5,000)
Runner-up: Team DesiCoders
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India (SGD $5,000)
- Yash Agarwal
- Vishesh Singhal
Honorable Mention: Team Saviors of Middle Earth (withdrew due to school commitments)
Walt Whitman High School, Maryland, USA
- Wes Kendrick
- Marc Rosen
- William Zhang
A big congratulations to this very talented group of students!
Eduardo Vela Nava is a Tech Lead for Google's WOOPS (Web or Other Product Security) team, helping teams build safer products.
Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Last Call for Google I/O kicks off tomorrow at 9:00 A.M. PDT 2013
Seo Master present to you: As Vic announced last week, we will be kicking off our Last Call for Google I/O contest tomorrow. We will be starting promptly at 9:00 A.M. PDT on March 16th with our Android challenge. As a reminder, here’s the contest schedule again:
March 16 - Android, 9:00 am
March 17 - Chrome, 9:00 am
March 18 - App Engine, 9:00 am
March 21 - YouTube APIs, 9:00 am
March 22 - Game Developers, 9:00 am
March 23 - Google Maps / Geo, 4:00 pm
March 24 - Commerce, 9:00 am
March 25 - Developer Tools / GWT, 9:00 am
March 28 - Accessibility, 4:00 pm
March 29 - Google Apps / Enterprise, 4:00 pm
All times are listed in PDT
When you visit the site tomorrow morning, you will see a tab in the navigation that reads “Android”--that’s where you will find all of the questions and submission forms for Round I. We’re excited to see what everyone comes up with!
2013, By: Seo Master
March 16 - Android, 9:00 am
March 17 - Chrome, 9:00 am
March 18 - App Engine, 9:00 am
March 21 - YouTube APIs, 9:00 am
March 22 - Game Developers, 9:00 am
March 23 - Google Maps / Geo, 4:00 pm
March 24 - Commerce, 9:00 am
March 25 - Developer Tools / GWT, 9:00 am
March 28 - Accessibility, 4:00 pm
March 29 - Google Apps / Enterprise, 4:00 pm
All times are listed in PDT
When you visit the site tomorrow morning, you will see a tab in the navigation that reads “Android”--that’s where you will find all of the questions and submission forms for Round I. We’re excited to see what everyone comes up with!
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Last Call for Google I/O 2013
Seo Master present to you:
2013, By: Seo Master
For those of you who were quick to register, 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. We will announce a new challenge on the contest site on select dates at either 9am or 4pm PDT, that will last for 24 hours each. There will be 10 days of challenges with 10 winners on each day, spanning the following developer products:
- March 16 - Android, 9:00 am
- March 17 - Chrome, 9:00 am
- March 18 - App Engine, 9:00 am
- March 21 - YouTube APIs, 9:00 am
- March 22 - Game Developers, 9:00 am
- March 23 - Google Maps / Geo, 4:00 pm
- March 24 - Commerce, 9:00 am
- March 25 - Developer Tools / GWT, 9:00 am
- March 28 - Accessibility, 4:00 pm
- March 29 - Google Apps / Enterprise, 4:00 pm
Each of the challenges will focus on one of our developer products and has two rounds. Plan to be in front of your computers for the first half-hour that the challenge starts to complete a series of questions for Round I, which will qualify you for the main coding challenge in Round II. You will have a little over 20hrs to complete Round II.
We want to make sure that we provide the opportunity to attend Google I/O to as many developers as possible and hope you’re feeling up to the task. The contest is valid in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia with winners being announced on April 4. And don’t forget that we will be livestreaming the keynotes and taping sessions during Google I/O. Stay tuned!
For more information and contest rules, visit the contest site.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo The Data Viz Challenge: can you make tax data exciting? 2013
Seo Master present to you:
2013, By: Seo Master
(Cross-posted from The Official Google Blog)
This time of year, everyone in the United States is starting to fill out—with varying levels of enthusiasm—our federal income tax forms. Yet, after we write our checks to the IRS, most of us don’t really know exactly where our money is going.
Fortunately, there’s a new online tool to help us find out. Last year, Andrew Johnson and Louis Garcia, two developers from Minneapolis, Minn., created a website called whatwepayfor.com that uses public data to estimate how our tax money is spent. You enter your income and filing status on the site, and it creates a formatted table of numbers showing your contributions to the federal budget—down to the penny:
We’re impressed by what the website uncovers. In 2010, for example, a married couple making $40,000 a year contributed approximately $14.07 to space operations, $6.83 to aviation security and $0.91 to the Peace Corps…and those are just a few of the hundreds of expenditures revealed on the site. As we spent time exploring all of these details, it got us thinking: how we could make the information even more accessible? So we created a simple interactive data visualization:
Click the image above to try the interactive version—it lets you drag the bubbles around, change the income level and so on. You can now look at the data in a new way, and it’s a little more fun to explore. Of course, there are lots of ways to visualize the data, and we’re very sure there are many talented designers and developers around the country who can do it even better than we have.
To make that happen, we’ve teamed up with Eyebeam, a not-for-profit art and technology center, to host what we’re calling the Data Viz Challenge. Andrew and Louis have built an API to let anyone access the data, so now you can choose how to display it. Could you create a better animated chart? Something in 3D? An interactive website? A physical display somewhere in the real world? We want you to show everyone how data visualization can be a powerful tool for turning information into understanding.
You can enter the challenge at datavizchallenge.org, where you’ll also find more information about challenge and the data. The challenge starts today and ends March 27, 2011, and is open to the U.S. only. The top visualization, as chosen by a jury, will receive a $5,000 award and a shout-out on the site and this blog. We’ll announce the shortlist on the week of April 11, and the winners on April 18, a.k.a. Tax Day.
If you’re a data viz enthusiast, we hope you’ll take a look at the data and build your own creative visualization. But even if you’re not, hopefully the results will help you appreciate what data visualization can do, and its usefulness in turning raw information—like federal income tax numbers—into something you can explore and understand.
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seo Google Code-in 2012 Grand Prize Winners... Drumroll Please! 2013
Seo Master present to you: By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source Programs Office
Cross-posted with the Google Open Source Blog
We are thrilled to announce the 20 grand prize winners of Google Code-in 2012, a contest designed to introduce teenagers to the world of open source software development. Congratulations to all 334 students from 36 countries who participated in the contest, completing 1,925 tasks.
Each of the 10 open source mentoring organizations that worked with the students during the contest chose 2 students to be their organization’s grand prize winners based on the students’ comprehensive body of work during the seven week contest period.
Students are listed alphabetically (by first name) with their country and the organization that they worked with during Google Code-in 2012.
Agustín Zubiaga, Uruguay - Sugar Labs
Akshay S Kashyap, India - BRL-CAD
Aleksandar Ivanov, Bulgaria - RTEMS
Aneesh Dogra, India - Sugar Labs
Aviral Dasgupta, India - Sahana Software Foundation
Cezar El-Nazli, Romania - BRL-CAD
Conor Flynn, Ireland - Apertium
Drew Gottlieb, United States - Copyleft Games Group
Illya Kovalevskyy, Ukraine - KDE
Liezl Puzon, United States - Sahana Software Foundation
Mathew Kallada, Canada - RTEMS
Matthew Bauer, United States - The NetBSD Project
Mingzhe Wang, China - The NetBSD Project
Mohammed Nafees, India - KDE
Nicolás Satragno, Argentina - The Fedora Project
Przemysław Buczkowski, Poland - Haiku
Qasim Iqbal, Canada - Apertium
Samuel Kim, United States - Copyleft Games Group
Vladimir Angelov, Bulgaria - Haiku
Ze Yue Wu, Australia - The Fedora Project
These 20 pre-university students completed an impressive 576 tasks ranging from annotating face recognition for disaster response efforts to creating videos and screencasts to teach others about the organization’s software to writing scripts to develop MySQL tables. In late April, the grand prize winners will be flown to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA along with a parent or legal guardian for a four night visit. During the trip the students will have the opportunity to participate in an awards ceremony, meet with Google engineers, have a full day of fun exploring San Francisco, and make new friends also interested in open source development.
A couple of quotes from the mentors that worked with this year’s Google Code-in students:
Written by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Posted by Ashleigh Rentz, Editor Emerita2013, By: Seo Master
Cross-posted with the Google Open Source Blog
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We are thrilled to announce the 20 grand prize winners of Google Code-in 2012, a contest designed to introduce teenagers to the world of open source software development. Congratulations to all 334 students from 36 countries who participated in the contest, completing 1,925 tasks.
Each of the 10 open source mentoring organizations that worked with the students during the contest chose 2 students to be their organization’s grand prize winners based on the students’ comprehensive body of work during the seven week contest period.
Students are listed alphabetically (by first name) with their country and the organization that they worked with during Google Code-in 2012.
Agustín Zubiaga, Uruguay - Sugar Labs
Akshay S Kashyap, India - BRL-CAD
Aleksandar Ivanov, Bulgaria - RTEMS
Aneesh Dogra, India - Sugar Labs
Aviral Dasgupta, India - Sahana Software Foundation
Cezar El-Nazli, Romania - BRL-CAD
Conor Flynn, Ireland - Apertium
Drew Gottlieb, United States - Copyleft Games Group
Illya Kovalevskyy, Ukraine - KDE
Liezl Puzon, United States - Sahana Software Foundation
Mathew Kallada, Canada - RTEMS
Matthew Bauer, United States - The NetBSD Project
Mingzhe Wang, China - The NetBSD Project
Mohammed Nafees, India - KDE
Nicolás Satragno, Argentina - The Fedora Project
Przemysław Buczkowski, Poland - Haiku
Qasim Iqbal, Canada - Apertium
Samuel Kim, United States - Copyleft Games Group
Vladimir Angelov, Bulgaria - Haiku
Ze Yue Wu, Australia - The Fedora Project
Congratulations Google Code-in 2012 Grand Prize Winners!
These 20 pre-university students completed an impressive 576 tasks ranging from annotating face recognition for disaster response efforts to creating videos and screencasts to teach others about the organization’s software to writing scripts to develop MySQL tables. In late April, the grand prize winners will be flown to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA along with a parent or legal guardian for a four night visit. During the trip the students will have the opportunity to participate in an awards ceremony, meet with Google engineers, have a full day of fun exploring San Francisco, and make new friends also interested in open source development.
A couple of quotes from the mentors that worked with this year’s Google Code-in students:
'They're surprisingly motivated, excited to contribute, genuinely interested, and productive to boot. Initial estimates indicate we may get years worth of work done and one student has already earned commit status, two others are getting close.' -- Sean Morrison, BRL-CAD Organization Administrator and Mentor, two weeks after the start of the contest
‘One of my favorite quotes, one you probably have seen before, from a student: "this is my first patch to an open source project"’ -- Walter Bender, Sugar Labs Organization Administrator and MentorAnd that is what this contest is all about, introducing students to the many ways that they can contribute to open source software development. An enormous thank you to all of the students, IT teachers, parents, mentors and organization administrators who made the Google Code-in 2012 a success!
Written by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Posted by Ashleigh Rentz, Editor Emerita2013, By: Seo Master