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Before there was Android or MeeGo, there was the LiMo Foundation. Founded in January 2007, the foundation was established to provide a Linux-based platform for mobile devices. Despite being around longer, LiMo hasn't gotten quite as much attention as other Linux mobile efforts.

To get some insight into LiMo, we talked with David Lefty Schlesinger, who chairs the LiMo Foundation's Open Source Committee and works for LiMo member ACCESS as its director of Open Source Technologies.

The Google Open Source Team team reviewed more than 365 applications before choosing the final 150 accepted mentoring organizations for this year's Google Summer of Code. Some names on the list are a holdover from previous years, while others are new after Google [bid a] fond farewell to some past participants in favor of bringing new projects into the program. You can check out the whole list on the project's Web site. As part of the mentoring application process, organizations were required to submit an Ideas List of suggested student projects. Check out the link next to each organization's profile to get an idea of what kinds of things student participants will be working on.

The role of a mentoring organization is to provide a list of projects for students to choose from, and shepherd a student through the Summer of Code process. The organization is also expected to provide feedback and a written evaluation of the student's work, as well as make sure work is down well and turned in on time.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking in Abu Dhabi this week, confirmed that the Chrome OS operating system is on track for the second half of this year. There are new reasons why its brightest future may be as an adjunct OS on netbooks and tablets. In fact, it's already appearing on devices alongside other operating systems, including Android. Find out more in GigaOM's story today.

Google and open source want to make us OCD on energy. Google's open source PowerMeter API is more powerful than you think.

137 years of Popular Science Magazine now online. Google helped make the archive possible.

Apache bug leads to update advice. IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache's HTTP web server.

The newbie's guide to hacking the Linux kernel. Kernel hacker Greg Kroah-Hartman explains what it takes.

Are the networks we depend on for our smartphones and other mobile devices destined to stay mediocre? Funambol's Fabrizio Capobianco, who can usually be counted on for good insight into all things related to mobile open source technology, has an interesting post up on the topic, titled What if the carriers want the network to be crap? ?

In it, he notes that many observers predict that Google might eventually leverage something like Google Voice to allow for VoIP calls that would eliminate the need for expensive carrier contracts. And, he notes, that creates an incentive for network providers to avoid throwing millions into upgrading their networks and deliberately keep them mediocre. Here is why that won't happen, though.

Registration for this year's Google I/O Conference has scarcely been open two months and it's already sold out. Google announced today that it is formally closing registration for the event, slated to be held on May 19-20 at Moscone West in San Francisco.

Google representatives say this is the first time the event has sold out this quickly, and well over 4,000 people are expected to attend. The event brings more than 4,000 developers together for a two-day sprint through sessions about some of Google's most popular products and tools, including App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, Android, and Chrome.