Continues to receive information about the results of a massive staff reduction at Google, which resulted in the dismissal of about 12 employees (6% of the total staff). In addition to the dismissal of part of the Fuchsia OS developers, which was previously reported, some prominent figures who promoted open source software and oversaw the company's open source projects also fell under the reduction. For example, Christopher Dibona (Chris Dibona), who since 2004 held the post of director of engineering and Open Source projects at Google (largely thanks to Christopher, such projects as Android, Chromium, Kubernetes, Go and Tensorflow), Jeremy Ellison ( Jeremy Allison, one of the leaders of the Samba project, Cat Allman, program manager for Open Source Outreach and Making & Science, and Dave Lester, who defined Google's open source strategy and promoted the initiative to strengthen the security of open projects .
Source: opennet.ru