The program works like this: we invite Googlers to nominate open source developers outside of the company who deserve recognition for their contributions to open source used at or relied on by Google. After review by a team of volunteer engineers, the recipients receive our heartfelt thanks and a small token of our appreciation.
We have recognized more than 500 open source developers from 30+ countries who have contributed their time and talent to over 400 open source projects.
Having just finished the latest round of the program, we’d like to recognize the individuals and the projects they worked on. Here’s everyone who gave us permission to thank them publicly:
| Name | Project | Name | Project |
| Olli Etuaho | ANGLE | Alexander Morozov | Golang |
| Minko Gechev | Angular | Joel Sing | LibreSSL |
| Georgios Kalpakas | Angular | Daniel Borkmann | Linux kernel |
| Spencer Low | AOSP (Android) | Michael Ellerman | Linux kernel |
| Holden Karau | Apache Spark | Heiko Stuebner | Linux kernel |
| Dave Taht | Bufferbloat | Jonathan Garbee | Material Design Lite |
| Leon Han | Chromium | Chris Sullo | Nikto |
| Yoav Weiss | Chromium | Carl Friedrich Bolz | PyPy |
| Rob Wu | Chromium | Brett Cannon | Python |
| Faisal Vali | Clang | Raymond Hettinger | Python |
| Matt Godbolt | Compiler Explorer | Tim Peters | Python |
| Paul Kocialkowski | coreboot | Tully Foote | ROS |
| Jonathan Kollasch | coreboot | Igor Babushkin | TensorFlow |
| Nicolas Reinecke | coreboot | Yuan Tang | TensorFlow |
| Werner Zeh | coreboot | Hanno Boeck | The Fuzzing Project |
| Daniel Greenfeld | Django | Khaled Hosny | TruFont |
| Eric Whitney | ext4 | Tom Rini | U-Boot |
| Ben Martin | FontForge | Caitlin Potter | V8 |
| Dmitri Shuralyov | go-github | Brian Behlendorf | ZFS on Linux |
Congratulations all and thank you so much for your contributions to the open source community!
By Helen Hu, Open Source Programs Office