Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 5:08 PM
At the end of July, several Google Summer of Code™ students got a chance to visit Google Bangalore. This being my first Summer of Code, I was very excited to visit the Google office and get a feel of what life is like when you work at Google. We had a bunch of students visit from all across India, and getting to meet them in person after days of talking on IRC added to the excitement!
Our hosts enlightened us about what Google is all about, the office itself, the company's India operations, and the Google 15 factor because of all the awesome food! We were also treated to a talk on the History of Google. Mr. Rahul Roy-Chowdhury’s presentation showcasing Google’s Vision & DNA gave us insights into how “different” Google’s business has been right from the start. We also got to know how new and innovative things are conceived of at Google and how projects end up in Google Labs, specifically the Google Indic Transliteration engine and Google News.
We all had a fantastic time and left feeling enriched and inspired. Many thanks to Google for hosting us!
3 comments:
Thank you for having us there.
we all loved that meetup and food :).
And the best thing is we all get google-open-source T-shirts :) + google stickers.
all presentations were very helpful and informative.
Thanks to Aishwarya, HR dept. for arranging that all for us there.
Also a very special thanks to LH for arranging all this for us.
sumitk
this is a very good service to indian languages. I hope this will increase internet / email communication and collaboration in malayalam.
if any one in google can dedicate 20% of his or her time ( typical google 20% ) to provide indic transileration option with in gmail UI - that will be an awesome service to indian languages.
communication over internet using indian language is mostly constrained by keyboard. unlike many other parts of world - indian language keyboard layouts are generally not popular in general people bcos of popularity of english and diversity with in india .
Im sure lot of people will help google to do this task including me - not that google needs help :-)
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