Code.google.com is Google‘s site for external developers interested in Google-related development. It’s where they’ll publish free source code and lists of Google API services.
A lot of people worked together to both prepare source code for release and prepare code.google.com for launch and ongoing maintenance. It shows that Google really does care about free and open source software (F/OSS) at Google, and this site is one aspect of that affection.
Current projects on Code.google.com can be found at http://code.google.com/projects.html.
The Code.google.com initially releasing is targeted at professional software development engineers who work with multi-threaded templated C++ code or who want functional features in python. Although this is a somewhat limited audience; Google made this decision specifically so they can work with a smaller community to iron out any bugs in our release and ongoing maintenance processes. Over time, Code.google.com plans to release more tools useful to broader groups of developers.
