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Posted by Josh Mendelsohn, Program
Manager

Over the past few days, we've followed the devastation left in
the wake of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma). News reports have
tallied more than 22,000 dead with another 41,000 missing.
We're extremely saddened by the loss of life due to this
cyclone, and hope you'd like to help assist with the relief
effort.

As we did after href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/wildfire-relief-donations.html"
id="j9np" >last fall's wildfires in Southern California,
we've created a href="http://www.google.com/myanmarcyclone/" id="gyvr" >Checkout
Donations page so you can easily donate to href="http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/myanmar_43788.html"
id="c4jh" >UNICEF or href="http://www.directrelief.org/EmergencyResponse/2008/CycloneNargisMyanmar/CycloneNargisMyanmar.aspx"
id="eiu0" >Direct Relief International.
Both organizations are working to directly assist the victims on
the ground in Myanmar.

To help visualize the damage, there are Google Earth layers showing
an href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/tracking-path-of-cyclone-nargis.html"
id="x2oi" >animation of
the cyclone's path (using satellite imagery from the Naval
Research Laboratory) and href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/unosat-layer-of-myanmar-cyclone-data.html"
id="nzjs" >the extent of the
flooding using data from the UN Institute for Training and
Research Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT).
We'll keep posting information to the href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/" id="m3i_"
>Lat-Long Blog as more data comes
available.

There are also several Google Grants non-profits working to provide
relief to those affected. href="https://secure.ga4.org/01/cyclone_nargis" id="cedv"
>Save the Children currently has a
500-person staff in the area, while href="https://donate.oxfamamerica.org/02/myanmar" id="eu.h"
>Oxfam America has committed $800,000 to
help NGOs meet the immediate needs of people. href="http://www.worldvision.org/news.nsf/news/myanmar-cyclone-20080505?open&lid=20225&lpos=fea_txt_ReadMore"
id="mi.s" >World Vision and href="http://doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=2656"
id="b4h7" >Doctors Without
Borders are also taking action with two of the most vulnerable
populations in the crisis: children and the injured. We are pleased
to be working with and supporting these organizations that are
contributing directly to cyclone relief. We encourage you to visit
them and consider lending them your support, too. For more details
on these organizations and other non-profits providing support for
the victims of the disaster, visit the

href="http://googlegrants.blogspot.com/2008/05/grant-recipients-helping-victims-of.html"
id="b:qu" >Google Grants blog.

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Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Program
Manager, Open Source

href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/" id="bt92" >Google Summer of
Code, our program to introduce students to open source software
development is coming back. In the past href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/three-summers-of-open-source.html"
id="uv9q" >three years, we've seen more than 1500 students
'graduate' from this program, working with 2000 mentors
across 90 countries to produce millions of lines of code. We're
pleased to have funded more than $10M in open source development
through Summer of Code, and we've increased our funding for it
this year by another $1M.

Last year alone, more than 800 students successfully completed
their projects. Each received $4500 as a stipend and an awesome

href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2327/2043654975_2ca729fc9d.jpg"
id="gr3." >T-shirt. We're looking forward to welcoming even
more student participants and open source projects into the Google
Summer of Code community this year.

We're accepting applications from open source projects
who'd like to act as mentoring organizations through March
13th, and will begin taking student applications on March 24th. If
you're interested in learning more, just subscribe to the

href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss"
id="r:gc" >program discussion list. We hope to see you
there!

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Posted by Meredith Whittaker, Program
Manager

Google Docs is all about being able to share and collaborate, and
now we're taking the idea of sharing a step further with a new
>Google
Docs Community Channel. This is a place to watch videos from
regular folks all about Google Docs, connect with others, and pick
up smart tips about all the ways to use the application.

Whether you want an introduction video, step-by-step help
instructions, or simply to see what others in the Google Docs
community have been doing, stop by, href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pAiMagd8vdxHOaNtcbNikIA"
>share your videos and enjoy this new showcase
for your ideas, your voice and your boundless creativity.

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Sinfonia dance spring breeze chorus of nation of China of chorus of 81 choruses Jilin

Department of liberation army air force is literary acrobatics team of Gansu Province of school of wushu of hill of round Henan fleabane

Compere sends New Year speech of congratulation: Duckweed of Bi Fujian Ni inferior Shi Yi of peaceful Zhang Zheng tubal red

01, TWINS of annual Gong Yuquan of China of joy of begin singing and dancing (Chinese Hong Kong) Xu Huixin (Chinese Taiwan) Han Jing (Chinese Macao)

02, group buccal comic dialogue does obeisance to Li Wenhua of elder brother of good year ginger 7 days Wu Bin of ceremony of magnify of Shi Fukuan of Dai Zhicheng boundless

03, guest of Liu of Zhang Yan of red couplet of singing and dancing

04, essay greets Yan Xuejing of mammon Pan the Yangtse River Bai Qing of Huang Xiaojuan full stop

05, acrobatics team of Jinan of acrobatics dancing a scene of bustling activity

06, celestial being of song combination demigod and small fairy lunar street story of China tradition goodness our home

07, masked comic dialogue is hair-raising sneer Lin Yongjian of golden hill of Feng Gong Liu

08, dancing combines Korea dance Xinjiang dance Dai dance dance of the Yi nationality Mongolia dance dance of the Va nationality

Aid act: Woman 12 happy lane fragrant China 18 combination

09, magic the following day Lin Junjie of hall Li Ning

10, Gong Hanlin of Yi Fei of Liu of essay drugstore Huang Hong

11, dancing art of my dream China disabled is round

12, Chen Hanbai of Wang Min of comic dialogue give sb a present

13, interactive program asks you to participate in development of collective direct seeding of 16 TV stations of province city to arrive home collect model program

14, Li Qin of new atmosphere of singing and dancing east Mao Yicheng

15, essay colour confuses Da Caiming of Guo Donglin Guo

16, Na Baichuan of sea of singing and dancing Yang Jiugong of columbine Luo Ningna of Liao Changyong dream

17, acrobatics team of acrobatics silken Wuhan

18, comic dialogue pig year Hui Lijia of Liu saying a pig is put

19, Li Yuan of Peng of chant of beauty of singing and dancing

20, 7 fairy wish the opera a Happy New Year Li Peihong of beautiful Jun Lijie of Liu Guijuan Zhao Yu Kuizhi Yang Chunxia Zhao Baoxiu

21, Fan Wei of red of Song Dan of Zhao Benshan of essay new face

22, interact program spring late play staff visits 16 TV stations of city to my home

23, flower of Chun Tao of sonata of song combination the four seasons open A Niu summerly Ningxia Liang Jingru Qiu Qiutian do not come back Wang Jiang the winter sends the Zhou Jielun that be like snow

24, Wei Jian of snow of Han of Sun Tao of old woman of essay old father

25, the most beautiful wife on world of singing and dancing is mom Song Zuying

26, melodrama keeps watch snow of Du Li collect of Olympic Games Liu Xiang beautifuls full Wen Junlin depends on Lun Manjiang

27, comic dialogue is new thing Niu Qun commons soldier

28, Zu Hai of Wang Hongwei of person of home town of singing and dancing

29, singing and dancing 1000 A Duo

30, big get-together of ceremonial whole nation visited 32 TV stations of city at 0 o’clock

31, song combination is all previous and excellent spring late song exhibits lucky Lai Zuhai lucky 3 treasure century rain during springtime happily gather under the same roof suddenly turn hostile

32, essay fierce Linxin passes Yan Ni to wait

33, Xia Qiudong of spring of singing and dancing another year of singer: Wave of Xu Bo, Hu Yao, bang, Sun Xiao, Liu Chunmei, Yi Miao flower, Ha Hui, Li Hui, Yuan Huiqin, Liu Guijuan, Li Peigong;

34, 4 small frog mix dancing 4 cygnet

35, happy event of singing and dancing is troubled by (spend good year) singer: Wind of Gong Yan, fire, Lv Wei, Liang Yin, A Luo, Hunan daughter, Bao Rong, Deng Chunrong

36, end music ” unforgettable today night ” singer: Yan Xiumei, Yu Jun sword

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Posted by Josh Mendelsohn, Program
Manager

Back in early October href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/got-blog-help-student.html" >
we announced our support for the Blogger Challenge put on by href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" id="peke" >DonorsChoose.org.
Now that October has come to a close, it's time to recognize
what DonorsChoose, 100 bloggers and their readers have
accomplished: they've raised $420,000 for classroom projects,
which will benefit more than 75,000 students in low-income
communities.

We promised a nod to those who helped raise the most money for
students, so without further ado, here are the Blogger Challenge
categories and winning blogs:

Lit Liberation: href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/10/04/karmic-capitalist-should-i-wait-until-im-rich-to-give/"
id="uczo" >Tim Ferriss

Technology: Fred
Wilson

General: Sarah
Bunting

Topical/Local: id="z4hk" >Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

Science: id="s8ze" >PZ Myers

We extend our gratitude and congratulations to these winners and
all of the participating bloggers for making this a success. Of
course, we all owe thanks to their readers for supporting students.
Sarah Bunting of Tomato Nation took this to heart and thanked her
readers in her own (tomato) way — enjoy!

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Tags: , early, Josh, ManagerBack, Mendelsohn, October, Posted, Program

Posted by Allyson McDuffie, Education
Program Development

The results are in for the winners of the Build Your Campus in 3D
Competition, which we href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/show-us-your-university-campus-in-3d.html" >
announced in January. The href="http://picasaweb.google.com/sketchupblog/SketchUpBlogImagesJuly2007/photo#5088383789169748306" >
judges chose 7 teams from among the dozens who submitted more
than 4,000 buildings from href="http://contest.sketchup.com/schools.php" >colleges and
universities all over North America. And the winning school
teams who will be joining us in Mountain View are:

University of
Minnesota | Twin Cities, Minnesota
Purdue University | West
Lafayette, Indiana
Concordia University,
Montreal, Quebec
Indiana University - Purdue
University Fort Wayne | Fort Wayne, Indiana
Franklin W. Olin College of
Engineering | Needham, Massachusetts
Dartmouth College |
Hanover, New Hampshire
Stanford University |
Stanford, California

Check out the competition
site to see more details about the judges, the rules, the
winners, and what they won. From there, you can follow a link to
see the winning campuses in your copy of Google Earth. Again,
congrats to the winning teams, and a big thank you to everyone who
participated. height="1" width="1" />

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Posted by Josh Mendelsohn, Program
Manager

When it comes to philanthropy, everyone’s got something different
to give – some people have money, others have time, and bloggers
have devoted readers. The creative folks at href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" id="gdcq" >DonorsChoose have
a few ideas about how bloggers can help students and
teachers.

In case you’re not familiar with DonorsChoose, it’s a site where
teachers post needs they have for their classrooms, and donors fund
those projects directly. If you’ve got a blog, a website, or even
an email account, you can help by creating what’s called a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/createChallenge.html"
id="zf6h" >challenge. Just pick some of your favorite projects
and challenge your family, friends, and readers to fund them. If
you’ve got a Blogger account, it’s easy to add your challenge to
your blog in just a few clicks.

To support their recent expansion to schools all across the U.S.,
the DonorsChoose team is holding a little competition, href="http://www.bloggerschoose.org/" >keeping track of which
bloggers and webmasters drive the most funding to schools.

We think this is a cool idea, so we want to help it succeed. We’re
going to reward the winning bloggers with exactly what they gave to
DonorsChoose, students, and teachers: traffic. The competition will
remain open until the end of October - we'll then take a look
to see who has helped raise the most money in each of the eight
DonorsChoose challenge categories. We’ll post links to the winners’
blogs here, and we’ll also throw in a $500 gift certificate for
each winner to spend on DonorsChoose.

So here’s our challenge to you: go href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/createChallenge.html" >create
a challenge on DonorsChoose. height="1" width="1" />

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Posted by Kevin Smith, Partner Program
Manager

If you can get href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=weather belfair WA&btnG=Google Search" >
weather forecasts for Belfair, WA from Google.com, why
shouldn’t you be able to access mainframe data from your own href="http://www.google.com/appliance" >Google Search Appliance?
Our 2,000 enterprise customers know that you can. (In fact our
enterprise business has grown more than 100 percent in the first
half of this year over the first half of last year.) The href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/gep/" >Google Enterprise
Professional program will help Google customers extend their
use of enterprise products to previously hard-to-search areas of
their infrastructure, such as legacy data locked in mainframes,
information on a highly secure government network, or real-time
customer data in an enterprise application.

As it turns out, there are plenty of businesses with expertise in
this stuff — systems integrators and independent software vendors
that know more about specialized enterprise environments than we
ever could. So today we're announcing this program to help
customers get more value out of their Google enterprise search
deployments.

We provide training, a development version of the Google Search
Appliance, and the necessary support so Google Enterprise
Professionals can become experts on our enterprise technology. And
they give us expertise in their categories built on years of
experience.

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