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Open Source

May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Sergei Semenkov

Mar 5

How to load data from Mondrian to Power BI Desktop

#powerbi #mondrian #opensource

2 min read

Quod AI for Quod AI

Mar 5

How to use Firestore: A deep dive into Todoist clone

#firebase #opensource #tutorial

13 min read

Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

Mar 4

Collabora Online Community Roundup #7

#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

9 min read

Javid Mougamadou

Mar 2

Wappalyzer : identifies technologies on websites with this Chrome Extension

#webdev #opensource #chrome #extensions

1 min read

tranbathanhtung

Mar 1

Gineko - Code search extension for GitHub

#showdev #opensource #github

1 min read

Anderson Bravalheri

Mar 4

PyScaffold 4.0 is here 🔥

#news #python #packaging #opensource

6 min read

Mar 3

GitHub Profile README Generator

#python #opensource #github #markdown

2 min read

Vishal Narkhede

Mar 1

React Native: How To Build Bidirectional Infinite Scroll

#reactnative #infinitescroll #opensource

6 min read

Feb 25

The Ultimate Serverless Framework Starter with ExpressJS and TypeScript

#showdev #opensource #serverless #typescript

1 min read

Brandon Roberts

Mar 5

My Journey into Developer Relations

#devrel #career #nrwl #opensource

3 min read

Mar 5

Markdown Link Checking in GitHub with Actions

#beginners #opensource #github #javascript

4 min read

Mar 5

Are open-source databases dead? [Quora answer]

#opensource #elasticsearch #mongodb

3 min read

Mar 5

Markdown 101 Basic To Advance Guide - Part 1

#markdown #opensource #github #readme

3 min read

Mohammed Farmaan.

Mar 5

Weatherify: A Simple Weather App using Flutter.

#showdev #opensource #flutter #webdev

1 min read

Mar 4

Simply Accessible Container Performance Monitoring with SuperVisor

#docker #devops #opensource #monitoring

4 min read

Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

Mar 3

Collabora Online Community Roundup #6

#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

8 min read

John Lafleur for Airbyte

Mar 3

How To Build a Slack Activity Dashboard With Open Source

#opensource #analytics

13 min read

Feb 21

Password Creator GUI using PyCharm

#opensource #python #beginners #machinelearning

2 min read

Feb 20

Changie - Automated Changelog Tool

#showdev #devops #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Feb 23

Switching to Arch Linux

#linux #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 1

AWS open source news and updates #58

#aws #opensource

15 min read

Feb 15

Towards Sustainable Source Software?

#discuss #opensource #programming #healthydebate

4 min read

Richard Rodrigues

Feb 19

Guía para Contribuir en Open Source - (GitHub for Dummies)

#spanish #opensource #github #tutorial

3 min read

Feb 18

Release 1.52 of perl-workflow

#perl #opensource #release

3 min read

Feb 26

How I Used the Opensource Codebase of Dev Community to Build My Own Website

#forem #opensource #backend #rails

5 min read

Feb 24

Easiest way to quickly deploy AWS infrastructure with Terraform (Open Source Project)

#opensource #programming #terraform #aws

1 min read

Carlota Soto for Crate.io

Feb 23

Try CrateDB Cloud for free 🐐

#database #opensource #sql #cloud

4 min read

Feb 10

The arguments against open source (and why they are wrong)

#opensource #license

5 min read

Carlota Soto for Crate.io

Feb 23

What is CrateDB? 🤔 FAQ

#database #sql #opensource

3 min read

Michelle Mannering

Mar 4

How to create and pin a gist on GitHub

#github #opensource #gist

3 min read

Mar 3

Making a living from open source

#opensource #webdev

5 min read

vincent d warmerdam

Mar 3

A `for`-loop to stop writing.

#python #sideprojects #opensource

6 min read

Feb 19

Using Twitter API and Reshuffle to manage Social Media Contests and Giveaways

#opensource #twitter #reshuffle #javascript

6 min read

Feb 28

Are We Really Doing Continuous Integration?

#git #devops #opensource

4 min read

Josh Simmons for Tidelift

Feb 18

Better together: cultivating an open source ecosystem that works for everyone

#opensource

4 min read

Feb 27

Insert catchy title here!

#opensource #toolazyfortitles

4 min read

Feb 26

Companion Objects: Kotlin's most unassuming power feature

#kotlin #opensource #coding

5 min read

David Michael Barr

Feb 26

Video encoder rollback optimization in rav1e

#av1 #optimization #opensource #video

15 min read

Feb 26

Generate your first Xamarin application with JHipster.NET

#csharp #dotnet #xamarin #opensource

3 min read

Feb 2

Release 1.51 of perl-workflow

#opensource #perl #release

4 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Feb 25

Making PONGPONG - Game Development using Pyglet - Part 2

#python #github #opensource #gamedev

8 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Feb 25

Making PONGPONG - Game Development using Pyglet - Part 3

#python #github #opensource #gamedev

11 min read

Feb 6

How Many Releases Do We Need?

#github #opensource

2 min read

Brian Douglas for GitHub

Feb 22

Open Source Home Automation

#opensource

1 min read

Lucas Santos for Microsoft Azure

Feb 23

Dando permissões a usuários com Kubernetes

#kubernetes #containers #opensource #security

9 min read

Feb 13

HandsOn Microservices Tutorial - Episode 1

#microservices #java #csharp #opensource

1 min read

Feb 22

The Open Source Community is quite literally the best

#opensource #linux #audio #music

1 min read

Maxime Guilbert

Feb 22

Keycloak - Your own OAuth platform

#devops #opensource #kubernetes

2 min read

Feb 22

I wrote a type-checked React form state manager.

#react #typescript #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Gitlab Meetup Community

Feb 1

Highlights of the Gitlab 13.8

#gitlab #devops #opensource

2 min read

Feb 28

Tips For Beginners to Open Source

#tips #beginners #opensource #advice

4 min read

Feb 9

React-toastify v7 is live

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Feb 22

Free and open source Bootstrap 5 UI Kit

#opensource #bootstrap #css #javascript

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 9

Monitoring and logging with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow

#aws #opensource

12 min read

Feb 9

Why #100DaysOfCode?

#challenge #codenewbie #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Feb 9

Introducing stencil.email

#showdev #opensource

1 min read

Feb 28

HTML Transparent Form

#opensource #html #beginners #machinelearning

2 min read

Jan 30

Hacktoberfest 2020 challenge completed!

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

2 min read

Jan 30

Give Me More NextJS

#nextjs #opensource #typescript #react

2 min read

Jan 25

Sync Github Issues with Asana Board Tasks

#opensource #reshuffle #github #asana

6 min read

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