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[G] Good luck to Jeff Gillis

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 10:30 PM PDT

Google Analytics Blog: Good luck to Jeff Gillis

If you have been a reader of the Google Analytics blog for any amount of time, you've likely seen the work of Jeff Gillis. In fact, if you go all the way back to the very first post on this blog from June 2006 you'll see Jeff as the author.


Jeff has been working on Google Analytics since there was a Google Analytics. After Urchin was acquired in 2005, Jeff left his post on the AdWords team to join Brett Crosby and form the original Google Analytics marketing team.

Today is Jeff's last day with the Google Analytics team. Jeff will be putting in some time consulting with other Google teams. Please join me and the Google Analytics team in thanking Jeff for his years of dedication to the team. Thanks Jeff!

Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Google Analytics Team
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/04/good-luck-to-jeff-gillis.html

[G] Googlers @ Women and Open Source: Panel Discussion

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:56 PM PDT

Google Open Source Blog: Googlers @ Women and Open Source: Panel Discussion

Last week the SD Forum held a panel discussion in Mountain View, CA entitled Tech Women: Women and Open Source. The discussion focused on explaining what open source is and how people can become involved in the open source community.

The Speakers included Google Open Source Program Office's Cat Allman, Automattic and Wordpress hacker Beau Lebens, LinuxForce's Elizabeth Krumbach, and MeeGo's Alison Chaiken. The panel was moderated by Janet Fouts, founder of the Social Media Coaching Center and Senior Partner at Tatu Digital Media.

Some questions posed to the panel included:

Video 1
(3:45) What does open source mean?
(8:26) Which women do you view as role models or mentors. What women
are making a difference in the open source community?
(13:29) There is a huge community around open source. How would someone
who is new to open source get started in open source?
(23:39) What barriers to entry for women have you seen in the open source
community?
(32:25) How do you mentor others?
(44:33) Where's the profit?
(50:20) How would you find a group or organization to join in open source?



Video 2
(01:02) Who are the main contributors to open source? Are they people
working on open source full time or in their spare time?



As an attendee of the meeting I found the overall message to be that anyone can become involved in open source with any kind of background, you don't have to be a programmer to be an open source contributor. You can help with documentation, marketing, events, help with mailing list questions or a number of other roles that need to be filled in a particular project.

There are open source projects on just about any topic you can imagine so search the web for something you are interested in, whether it's disaster relief, gaming, mathematics, translation software, music players, business applications and so on. Watch the IRC channel, join mailing lists and just hang out and absorb the knowledge and vibe of the particular open source project that interests you and you can quickly learn about the project and find your niche in the community.

Remember, there is something for everyone in open source. Join in the fun!

By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs Office

URL: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/04/googlers-women-and-open-source-panel.html

[G] An important note about legacy accounts

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 02:18 PM PDT

Blogger Buzz: An important note about legacy accounts


Posted by Brett Wiltshire, Product Operations

There was a time early on in Blogger's life where we had our own, custom account system for handling login authentication. Starting in 2006 all new Blogger accounts were created using the official Google accounts system, and then in 2007 we started the process of moving all of our legacy users over to the Google accounts system. Now, four years later, we're finally at the home stretch of the transition. For a number of technical and operational reasons, we've decided to finally end our support for all legacy accounts and blogs after June 25th, 2011. So if you have a Blogger account and haven't logged in since 2007, you will lose access to the account and associated content permanently unless you update to the Google Account system before June 25th.

Updating to the new account system is easy and should take just a few minutes. We really do value all of the content that has been created on Blogger and we hope that as many people as possible will reclaim their blogs. If you've been avoiding this task for a while, we encourage you to head over to the Legacy migration page and update your account.

We'll be sending a similar notice later this week via email to all of the email addresses associated with the legacy accounts we have in our database. In a few weeks we'll also make another announcement here on Buzz, with more specific updates on the transition.

If you have any other questions about this process, please let us know by posting your issue in the Login section of our Help Forum.
URL: http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/04/important-note-about-legacy-accounts.html
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