Science and Open Source Program at Google
summary
Google’s Open Source Programs Office runs Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in, has released roughly 900 open-source packages over nine years, and accepts ~180 mentoring orgs each year with 43+ tagged as science projects. Programs fund field trips for 116,000 kids, sponsor Software Carpentry’s 500+ workshops reaching 16,000 learners, back low-cost kits like Squishy Circuits, and support the Wiki Education Foundation effort that yields 65% women editors for science content. Projects like Calico, Makani and Verily advance applied research.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:32Open source at Google
- 3:41Making and Science team
- 5:50Science Foo Camp
- 7:15Field trip days for kids
- 8:20Google Science Fair and MOOCs
- 10:07Alphabet’s science companies
- 11:34Open source and science intersection
- 12:59Science education programs
- 16:12Wikipedia Education Foundation
- 18:00Why Google cares about science
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