Open source software is a cornerstone of software development inside and outside of Google, and the Google Open Source Peer Bonus program is one way we thank the people who make our work possible. Twice a year we invite Googlers to nominate external contributors to be rewarded for their contribution to open source projects.
This time we have a truly international team of recipients from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Ireland, France, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, UK and USA. You can learn about previous recipients in these blog posts.
Projects range from Linux distributions and version control systems to monitoring and testing software. Some are part of the backbone of our industry, others are critical dependencies of specific products and services we offer. All of them are important to us!
Listed below are the individuals who gave us permission to thank them publicly:
| Name | Project | Name | Project |
| Sultan Alsawaf | Android Kernel | Ravi Santosh Gudimetla | Kubernetes |
| Allan McRae | Arch Linux | Steve Kuznetsov | Kubernetes |
| Seth Pollack | aws-encryption-provider | Hisham Muhammad | LuaRocks |
| George Gensure | Bazel Buildfarm | Yutaka Matsubara | meinheld |
| Omar Cornut | Dear ImGui | Pulkit Goyal | Mercurial |
| Alessandro Arzilli | Delve | Yuya Nishihara | Mercurial |
| Matt Klein | Envoy | Adam Mummery-Smith | Mixin |
| Ivan Grokhotkov | ESP8266 core for Arduino | Arnout Engelen | Notion |
| Esther Onfroy | Exodus Privacy | Brian Brazil | Prometheus |
| Yao Li | Forklift | Bruno Oliveira | pytest |
| Warner Losh | FreeBSD | James Friedman | RMWC |
| Elijah Newren | Git | Steve Klabnik | Rust Book |
| Gábor Szeder | Git | Jack Lukic | Semantic UI |
| Alvaro Viebrantz | google-cloud-iot-arduino | Vidar Holen | ShellCheck |
| Richard Musiol | GopherJS, go-wasm | Ivan Popelyshev | Skia graphics in Chrome |
| Tobias Furuholm | Grafeas | Spencer Gibb | Spring Cloud |
| David Pursehouse | JGit | Daniel Alm | Swift gRPC |
| Brian Granger | Jupyter | Yong Tang | TensorFlow |
| Rodrigo Menezes | kops | Jason Zaman | TensorFlow, Gentoo, SELinux |
| Rohith Jayawardene | kops | Kai Sasaki | TensorFlow.js |
| Kam Kasravi | Kubeflow | Manraj Grover | TensorFlow.js |
| Pete MacKinnon | Kubeflow | Stefan Weil | Tesseract |
| Christoph Blecker | Kubernetes | Sumana Harihareswara | Warehouse (PyPI) |
| Davanum Srinivas | Kubernetes | Jia Li | zone.js |
Once again we would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to current and former recipients for their hard work, time and devotion to open source. Without you these projects wouldn’t thrive!
We look forward to your ongoing contributions and can’t wait to recognize even more contributors for their work in 2019.
By Maria Tabak, Google Open Source