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What are the best ways to stay up on what's happening in the OSS world? (self.opensource)

submitted 3 months ago by gedaliyah to c/[email protected]

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I used to browse through the latest apps on FDroid, but recently I've switched to using obtainium. There doesn't seem to be a web interface that really shows the new activity or popular apps. I'd also be interested to see what's happening outside of Android. How do you stay up on what's happening in FOSS?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

read lemmy

[–] hiramfromthechi 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I started a website called OpenSourcely to do exactly this.

It aggregates news, projects, and announcements related to open source.

I'm always on the lookout for new RSS feeds and outlets to add to it, so if anyone has any, feel free to send them my way.

[–] gedaliyah 9 points 3 months ago

Cool. I'll add it to my RSS reader

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

@[email protected] like their content, but pity it is only really headers. There is no full text content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Correct, and most lead to pay walled sites like Medium.

[–] hiramfromthechi 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's only an aggregator that then points you to the original content. For legal reasons, I don't think OpenSourcely would be able to host the original content natively.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I check Phoronix often, and have some blogs in an RSS reader.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have Phoronix in my RSS plus blogs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I don't really want Phoronix in my RSS, because they post so many articles every day and it would just clog everything up. I just check them once a day or so and read the interesting articles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I subscribe to the selfh.st newsletter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I prefer to do it via podcasts myself. The JupiterBroadcasting family have a bunch of variety to choose from in terms of what you like.

[–] hyperreal 5 points 3 months ago

Changelog media is another good source to complement this rec. Longer form, as opposed to breaking news, conversations about many OSS related (and software development in general) topics. Some of their now defunct programs like Request For Commits were some of my favorites.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

@[email protected] I have some RSS feeds but everything is read right now I'm not sure if these are all full text content: https://itsfoss.com/rss/ https://www.linuxtoday.com/feed/ https://opensource.com/feed https://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/rss.xml

I use Full Text RSS to pull in the full content into FreshRSS