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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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Apr 17

Dawn of the Final Week (Again)

#opensource #bribery #ohgodhelpme #beer

5 min read

Lucas Neves Pereira

Apr 16

Gituser CLI - Switch between git accounts easily

#cli #go #git #opensource

3 min read

Jentan Bernardus

Apr 16

The open source Calendly alternative is here

#opensource

1 min read

Apr 16

CodeFactory for Visual Studio (free license)

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Apr 15

Talk Notes: 'The Rising Storm of Ethics in Open Source' (RailsConf 2021)

#techtalks #opensource

4 min read

Carlota Soto for Crate.io

Apr 15

Exploring data with Jupyter Notebook, Pandas and CrateDB

#database #datascience #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Apr 15

Types of Clustering Algorithms...

#machinelearning #datascience #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Apr 16

My First PR got merged!!

#opensource #github #beginners #contribution

1 min read

Apr 12

PyLadies is 10 years!

#python #datascience #womenintech #opensource

1 min read

Apr 15

SocketCluster. The most underrated framework. Part 3: A Pub/Sub example and middleware

#socketcluster #opensource #node #javascript

4 min read

Apr 15

Why is standardized data so important in embedded systems?

#embedded #opensource #startup #data

5 min read

Apr 15

What's the best strategy to get contributors and stars on a repository?

#github #embedded #opensource #startup

1 min read

Gilles Heinesch

Apr 11

Add Your Open-Source Discord Bot To This List!

#contributorswanted #opensource #discord #beginners

1 min read

Apr 11

Releases of Perl Distributions Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 and Crypt::OpenSSL::X509

#perl #release #opensource

2 min read

Apr 11

Release 1.53 of perl-workflow, a minor feature release

#release #opensource #perl

2 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Apr 10

Avoid These Mistakes While Training Your AI

#artificialintelligence #machinelearning #python #opensource

5 min read

Apr 8

How to Python Package 📦 - Licenses, Git and Versioning

#python #opensource #devops #programming

4 min read

Apr 8

First open source implementation of the Google Zanzibar

#opensource #security #cloud #github

1 min read

Josh Simmons for Tidelift

Apr 7

Join us June 7-12 for Maintainer Week

#opensource #maintainerweek #github

2 min read

Apr 3

Urly - Command Line URL Unshortener

#node #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Apr 2

4 Interior Designing Tips for a Healthier Home

#design #devops #opensource

3 min read

Apr 6

GitHub Sponsors now allows one-time and customizable donations! 🎉

#github #donations #opensource #githubsponsors

2 min read

Apr 14

#AdoptAPerlModule

#perl #cpan #opensource

2 min read

devin ivy for hapi pal

Apr 11

2018-2019 Article Archive

#webdev #archive #opensource

1 min read

Mar 28

Contribute to Open Source

#webdev #opensource #webcomponents #btopro

1 min read

Apr 9

Open source MERN survey APP for you to Learn and contribute

#codenewbie #webdev #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Michael Jolley for Vonage

Mar 31

Introducing Vonage for Visual Studio Code

#productivity #opensource #vscode

3 min read

Jon for Slatwall Commerce

Apr 7

Announcing Slatwall Commerce for WordPress New Release v1.1

#wordpress #opensource #api #ecommerce

2 min read

Mar 29

ColorDetect: Python Image processing algorithms

#tutorial #python #datascience #opensource

4 min read

Apr 3

How Do Open Source Companies Make Money?

#opensource

8 min read

Mar 25

Azure access scenarios, from a DevOps point of view

#azure #devops #security #opensource

10 min read

Carlota Soto for Crate.io

Apr 12

Monitoring your database with Prometheus and Grafana

#opensource #monitoring #database

6 min read

Apr 12

How to install Github Desktop for Ubuntu & Debian?

#github #ubuntu #opensource #linux

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 12

AWS open source news and updates #63

#opensource #aws

17 min read

devin ivy for hapi pal

Apr 12

🎂 hapi pal v3: Birthday Edition

#news #node #opensource #webdev

11 min read

Apr 11

I open source my remote desktop software: RustDesk

#showdev #programming #opensource #flutter

1 min read

Mar 18

Live Preview your App in OneDev Pull Request

#devops #opensource #heroku

2 min read

Apr 9

PHP routing library for fast API development

#showdev #php #opensource

3 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Mar 30

Why You Should be Using Low-Code Apps to Build Internal Tools

#javascript #dev #opensource #tools

8 min read

Vickie Li for ShiftLeft

Apr 8

Scanning for Secrets in Source Code

#cybersecurity #hacking #softwareengineering #opensource

4 min read

Apr 8

GitHub Actions Version Updater, Similar to GitHub's Dependabot, but for GitHub Actions

#github #opensource #python #tooling

3 min read

Mad Devs for Mad Devs

Apr 8

Boilerplate for a basic AWS infrastructure with EKS cluster

#devops #opensource #aws #terraform

2 min read

Fleek for Fleek

Mar 19

Release Updates - Fleek Hosting CLI & API, and Github Actions

#news #git #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Mar 28

User Accessibility and Developer Experience

#opensource #react #css

3 min read

Apr 5

How to Python Package 📦 - Setting up

#python #opensource #devops #programming

3 min read

Benjamin Wölkchen

Mar 13

How to Plan a release of an open source project

#opensource #management

1 min read

Apr 4

How to Python Package 📦 - Start to Finish

#python #opensource #devops #programming

2 min read

Mar 25

Building a Cookery Blog with Bulma Clean Theme

#showdev #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mar 24

React + Bootstrap 5 UI KIT

#webdev #opensource #javascript #react

1 min read

Christina Gorton

Apr 2

March: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#opensource #meta

2 min read

Apr 2

Using Orbit to better manage your open source developer project community

#opensource #community

7 min read

manish srivastava

Mar 23

Upcoming next : "Open Source" will change to "Source available" in cloud.

#news #opensource

1 min read

Fleek for Fleek

Mar 9

To DFINITY and Beyond: Static Front-end Hosting, Internet Computer Gateway, and the Next Steps.

#news #dfinity #hosting #opensource

10 min read

Mar 23

What is Hacktoberfest?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

3 min read

Apr 12

How To Make Your First Ruby Gem (a step-by-step guide)

#rails #ruby #opensource

6 min read

Amanda Giannelli

Mar 31

Keeping Your Fork Up-to-date

#opensource #beginners #git

1 min read

Mar 21

Contributing to Open Source in Quality Assurance

#opensource #testing #beginners

5 min read

whykay 👩🏻‍💻🐈🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Mar 8

Ink Art with 3D Printing Press (& Lino)

#3dprinting #opensource #art #maker

4 min read

Mar 12

Keeping it simple and sane

#sanityio #devops #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Sandra Ahlgrimm for Microsoft Azure

Apr 6

Microsoft Java is out

#microsoft #java #opensource #openjdk

1 min read

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