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Google Summer of Code 2024: Contribute to GitLab and Git to prepare Learning how to contribute to GitLab and Git can help you get ready to apply for Google's program for open source development. Read Post
Open Source 
How the Eclipse Foundation champions open source with GitLab
In this interview, learn how adopting GitLab helps the Eclipse Foundation be a more effective champion for open source.
Open Source 
Behind the scenes of GitLab's Korean translation
How a student project helped maintain linguistic consistency and deliver a unified user experience for the Korean GitLab community.
Open Source 
How the Colmena project uses GitLab to support citizen journalists
Find out why the Colmena project, a GitLab Open Source Partner, relies on a DevSecOps platform to develop and deliver open source tools for citizen journalism.
Open Source 
Debian customizes CI tooling with GitLab
Debian developer Santiago Ruano Rincón explains the Linux distribution's custom solution for improving and expediting the open source software packaging process.
Open Source
Migrating Arch Linux's packaging infrastructure to GitLab
Arch Linux developer Levente Polyak explains how the project recently migrated its packaging infrastructure to GitLab and what Arch Linux gained as a result.
Open Source
Why the Manjaro Linux distribution builds with GitLab
Watch this interview with the Manjaro project to learn why the Linux distribution chooses to build with GitLab.
Open Source 
Coordinating major documentation projects with GitLab
Members of The Good Docs Project explain how to plan, coordinate, and release major documentation projects using GitLab.
Open Source 
Developing next-generation telecommunications with GitLab
Learn more about Project Sylva, a cross-industry collaboration to build a cloud-native, open source telecommunications platform using GitLab.
Open Source 
How building modern websites with GitLab led to a healthier Fedora Project community
Learn how the Fedora Project recently modernized its web development practices and streamlined team workflows with GitLab.
Open Source 
How The Good Docs Project uses GitLab for documentation as code and more
In this video interview, meet our new Open Source Partner, The Good Docs Project, and learn about the benefits they are extracting from the DevSecOps platform.
Open Source 
Get to know our newest open source partner, The Open Group
The Open Group leaders explain how the organization uses GitLab to build and maintain open standards for transformative digital technologies.
Open Source 
Major League Hacking: Student fellows contribute to platform feature updates
Our latest program participants explain their projects, their results, and the lessons they learned.
Engineering 
Start an open source center of excellence in 10 minutes using GitLab
Launch your own open source program office using the OSPO Alliance's tools on GitLab
Security 
GitLab and Let's Encrypt partner to improve website security
Learn how to add a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate to a website hosted and managed via GitLab Pages.
Open Source 
A Google Summer of Code project: creating a benchmarking framework for SAST
Our 2022 Google Summer of Code project helped to create a benchmarking framework for SAST.
News 
Public open source projects are eligible for Ultimate tier features
GitLab's Open Source Program offers top-tier functionality and 50,000 CI pipeline minutes, for free. Learn more about applying.
Open Source 
Technology internships meet open source in Outreachy
Inside Outreachy technology internships, where participants work on Git.
Open Source
How you contribute to GitLab's DevOps Platform
Today we're celebrating you! These are just some of the many examples of how you make GitLab's DevOps Platform better by innovating together.
News 
We're open sourcing Protocol Fuzzer Community Edition!
GitLab is releasing an open source protocol fuzz testing repository.
Open Source
How GitLab helped Kali Linux attract a growing number of community contributions
Since moving to GitLab in 2019, Kali Linux has gone from company-only contributions to a growing number of community contributions.
Engineering 
How we automatically fixed thousands of Ruby 2.7 deprecation warnings
The upgrade to Ruby 2.7 for GitLab involved thousands of deprecation warnings across hundreds of files. Here's how we fixed most of them.
Unfiltered 
How to Read Open Source: Finding Middleman Callbacks
Open source empowers you to learn beyond existing documentation. Getting started can be confusing. This is a demonstration finding unlisted Middleman callbacks.
Engineering 
How to fuzz Rust code continuously
Learn why you should always fuzz test your Rust code, and the code you'll need to do it.
Engineering 
How to make Docker Hub rate limit monitoring a breeze
Docker Hub Rate Limits are enforced and we need to find ways to monitor the remaining pull requests. Explore some ways to create a monitoring plugin for Nagios/Icinga/Sensu/Zabbix and test-drive a new Prometheus exporter in combination with Grafana.
Open Source 
Inside the collaboration between GitLab and The Last Mile
GitLab teamed up with The Last Mile to bring open source DevOps and tech mentorship to incarcerated populations across the United States.
Insights
A guide to Rust programming language
Rust is a well-loved programming language but it is a mindset shift from options like C++. Here's a tutorial and an inside look at Rust code and its capabilities.
Open Source 
Why the KDE community is #movingtogitlab
Open source software community giant KDE finished phase one of their migration to GitLab and has joined our GitLab open source program. Check out what's next for KDE and GitLab.
Unfiltered
Why GitLab is building Meltano, an open source platform for ELT pipelines
Our goal is to make the power of data integration available to all by building a true open source alternative to existing proprietary hosted ELT solutions.
Security 
How we manage open source security software
Open source software presents unique security challenges. Here’s what you need to know.
Open Source 
We're moving our observability suite to Core
Our gift to you for 2020: Metrics, logging, and tracing and alerting are coming soon to Core!
Engineering 
Open-sourcing the Gitter mobile apps
Learn how we open sourced the Android and iOS Gitter apps.
Insights 
Don’t let your dependency-laden software become the next monolith
Keep your software development fast and efficient with dependency scanning and auto-remediation.
Engineering 
We've open sourced 3 tools to help troubleshoot system performance
Say hello to the open source tools our Support team is using to better summarize customer performance data – and find out how they can help you.
Insights 
4 Risks to consider when implementing third-party code
Third-party code is a great resource for businesses, but comes with a number of risks. Explore four ways developers can keep their code secure.
Security 
Turning the Adobe CCF into the GitLab Control Framework (it’s all open source!)
We’ve implemented and adapted an open source compliance framework. Now we're sharing our process and tools so you can adapt and customize it too.
Open Source 
The Donatinator: A simple, secure way to accept donations to your charity or non-profit
This guest author shares his passion project: a free and open source solution for small charities and non-profits to accept donations online.
Open Source 
A visual prototype of Drupal.org's GitLab integration
Guest author Tim Lehnen shares a visual preview of free and open source platform Drupal's upcoming integration with GitLab.
Open Source 
Welcome to GitLab, freedesktop.org!
Freedesktop.org, the home of open source desktop technology development, has migrated to GitLab to improve their workflow and modernize their service.
Open Source
Come on in! Drupal is moving to GitLab
Free and open source platform Drupal is moving to GitLab to accelerate developer velocity and attract new talent and contributors to the project.
Open Source 
GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source
Our top-tier SaaS and self-managed offerings are now free to educational institutions and open source projects. Find out how to apply.
Open Source 
Congratulations GitHub on the acquisition by Microsoft
The acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft is validation of the growing influence of software developers in the world.
Company 
#movingtogitlab
People are #movingtogitlab. New users can get 75% off on Gold or Ultimate for one year.
Open Source 
GNOME, welcome to GitLab!
We’re excited to welcome free software project GNOME to the GitLab community.
Company 
We're switching to a DCO for source code contributions
We want to make it even easier for everyone to contribute, by doing away with our Contributor License Agreement in favor of the Developer's Certificate of Origin.
Open Source 
Enabling an open and collaborative course environment with GitLab and the Grav CMS
Guest author Paul Hibbitts shares how he combines GitLab with the flat-file CMS Grav to provide an open, collaborative and flexible environment that partners with his institution's LMS.
Open Source 
How GitLab can help in research reproducibility
NYU reproducibility librarian Vicky Steeves shares why GitLab is her choice for ongoing collaborative research, and how it can help overcome challenges with sharing code in academia.
Open Source 
A way for startups to build a solid IT infrastructure
Seven free software solutions to cover your most important use cases.
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