This Week in Open Source for June 20, 2025
A look around the world of open sourceWe're starting a new series here at the Google Open Source Programs Office. In an effort to spread the word of open source, we'll be writing a weekly series discussing announcements, events, and interesting articles about many different FOSS related topics from around the ecosystem.
Upcoming Events:
- June 23-25: The Open Source Summit North America (OSSNA) is next week in Denver, Colorado. A SWE from the Google Agent 2 Agent team will be delivering an exciting keynote on the future of the protocol.
- July 7-13: The 24th annual SciPy conference will be held in Tacoma, Washington. It brings together attendees from industry, academia, and government to showcase their latest Python projects, learn from skilled users and developers, and collaborate on code development.
- July 8-9: The Beam Summit is happening in New York City. It is the leading conference for Apache Beam, the unified programming model for batch and stream data processing.
- July 14-19: The 26th annual Debian Conference (DebConf) for Debian contributors and users interested in improving Debian is in Brest, France.
Open Source Reads
- [Article] New compiler faster than LLVM - A new compiler that is faster than the standard? Color me interested. Three researchers from the Technical University of Munich have developed TPDE, a new compiler backend framework. It combines multiple background tasks into a single pass.
- [List Article] 14 Open Source Tools To Become The Ultimate Developer - Yes, these types of articles come out all the time. But a curated list of new tools to look at is always a great way to get motivated and learn new things.
- [Announcement] GUAC 1.0 is now available - With current regulations (and pragmatically, just good software development practices) keeping up with your software bill of materials is important. However, the dependencies can be complex! GUAC helps you tame this complexity by applying graph logic to it.
- [Blog] Cloud Native and Open Source Help Scale Agentic AI Workflows - Why use a Large Language Model when a Smaller Language Model will work? You can with a few open source tools that happen to be Google grown - Kubernetes, KNative, and Istio.
What exciting open source events and news are you hearing about? Let us know on our @GoogleOSS X account.
