Greg Stein writes enigmatically about “A New Google Service” on his blog, Google Code Updates:

I’ve been working with a great team for a while now to produce a new Google Service for the Open Source community — in fact, we’re putting the final touches on it as I write this blog post. Come to my OSCON talk on Thursday the 27th, at 1:45pm, to learn more!

The reliable Garett Rogers speculates: “They could be setting up a public code repository for developers. Now that would have people talking! One thing Google really needs now is a community of developers — and a great place to find one would be OSCON. If the word ‘Google’ ever becomes synonymous with ‘code’ in the eyes of the open source community, that would be very interesting — especially since a large portion of open source developers aren’t exactly pro-Microsoft.”

We shall see.