Licensing & Legal · 9 months ago
Recent Licensing Changes Affecting the Open Source Community
Licensing is the backbone of the open source ecosystem, defining how software can be used, modified, and distributed. Over the last few years, there…
Open Source News · 1 year ago
Emerging Trends in Open Source Development for 2026
The open source ecosystem has always evolved rapidly, but 2026 is shaping up to be a **transformative year**. New technologies, shifting community structures, and…
Open Source News · 3 years ago
What's the panorama for gay and LGBT+ in Poland
In this small Polish town, a Catholic church is an oasis of normalcy against state-sanctioned anti-LGBT sentiment. Poland's right-wing populist leader rose to power…
Open Source News · 4 years ago
Fertility Tracker Method : an assistant in pregnancy planning or an unnecessary device?
Many people associate natural family planning (NPR) with an archaic, ineffective and unreliable way of deriving from an earlier era, i.e., the so-called a…
Open Source Software · 7 years ago
SOCIAL MEDIA AND OPEN SOURCE
Open source software has many advantages as we have seen, it allows people to discover errors and bugs faster, it can be adapted for…
Open Source Software · 7 years ago
Everything you must know about Open Source Software
Why Open Source? What is open source software? Open source software is software distributed under a license that allows its use, modification and redistribution.…
Open Source Software · 7 years ago
A MARVEL TO WITNESS: OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
How many times have you heard the phrase: “The future is now”, and surely you will agree that every time you have heard this…
Open Source Software · 8 years ago
PRIVACY IN SHARING IS CARING TIMES: OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
A few years ago no one would bat an eye on Google, not even on Facebook, once we went into these websites our security…
Outercurve History · 2 days ago
ASP.NET Open Source Projects: What the Outercurve Gallery Was and Where to Find Them Today
What the Outercurve ASP.NET Open Source Gallery was, and where to find open source .NET projects today: the .NET Foundation, GitHub and NuGet.
Outercurve History · 2 days ago
DataUp Research Data Tool: What It Was and Who Built It
DataUp was a California Digital Library tool for preparing research spreadsheet data. See who built it, its partners and its place in Outercurve's history.
Tools & Services · 9 months ago
Perl DL: Scientific Computing and Data Analysis with Perl
Perl is often associated with text processing, system automation, and scripting. However, for decades it has also offered a powerful and often overlooked ecosystem…
Tools & Services · 11 months ago
Open Source Tools You Should Integrate into Your Development Workflow Today
Modern software development is no longer defined solely by programming languages or frameworks. Instead, productivity, quality, and scalability are shaped by the tools that…
Tutorials & How-Tos · 9 months ago
Best Practices for Maintaining an Open Source Project Long-Term
Open source projects rarely fail because of poor code quality. More often, they struggle—or quietly fade away—because long-term maintenance is underestimated. Writing the first…
Tutorials & How-Tos · 10 months ago
How to Create a Scratch-Off Game
Understanding how to create a scratch-off game is valuable for developers, designers, and organizations looking to build engaging digital experiences. Scratch-off games are widely…
Tutorials & How-Tos · 11 months ago
Cloning Repositories in Outercurve
Cloning repositories is often the very first technical interaction developers have with an open source project. In foundation-backed ecosystems such as Outercurve, this seemingly…
Tutorials & How-Tos · 1 year ago
Your First Contribution: Steps to Contributing Code to an Open Source Project on Outercurve
Introduction Contributing to open source is one of the most rewarding experiences a developer can have. It’s not just about writing code —…