How Google Fostered Open Source Community During the Pandemic
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Google launches Google Open Source Live, a monthly interactive series using YouTube Live and Google Meet with live Q&A, after‑parties, quizzes and live artist drawings; it adds human captions, translated subtitles and volunteer voiceovers. Early pandemic shows a 38% drop in Kubernetes daily commits, so Google reroutes a thousand interns to open source, ships care packages and runs 12 events reaching 107 countries with a 4.5/5 score and 57% new learners, proving the format boosts engagement.
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- 0:00Start
- 9:17Interactive
- 9:42Accessible
- 16:04Keep a Sustainability mindset
- 17:25Internal Community is your power source
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