The tables below, list some of Google's eclectic mix of open source luminaries grouped by project.
No doubt I've forgotten some, so don't hesitate to contact me with corrections/additions.


Gradually Google is becoming less secretive, especially so since 2005/2006. Consequently it can attract high profile people from the open source community, on whose technologies it depends so much. As well as employing those above and many others involved in open source, it has begun to interact more with the community. For example Google has started to release internal tools, provide an open source project hosting service and runs the very cool Summer of Code initiative. These are definitely not trivial undertakings. For instance Google has spent the following on the Summer of Code project:


This is money well spent as they get better open source software, kudos from the community and also get an early view of blossoming open source stars. Other notable Google hackers not directly involved in open source are: