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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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May 9 '23

Pidgin's Architecture

#architecture #opensource #pidgin #repost

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 5 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 40)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Apr 10 '23

Week 12: DNS records instructions and catching errors

#opensource

2 min read

Apr 27 '23

[Nestia] Boost up NestJS server much faster and easier (maximum 20,000x faster + tRPC similar)

#typescript #javascript #nestjs #opensource

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 8 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #156

#opensource #aws

20 min read

sachinM

May 9 '23

Revolutionize Your Development Skills: Top GitHub Repositories You Can't Afford to Miss

#github #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Aestimo K.

May 9 '23

Self Host A FREE Retool Alternative On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

#javascript #beginners #productivity #opensource

5 min read

May 9 '23

A Prayer for New Opportunities in Open Source Technology

#opensource #career

2 min read

Marcel.L

May 8 '23

GitHub + Dev Hackathon 2023 - Self-hosted Azure Pipelines Agent Codespace/Dev Container

#githubhack23 #codespaces #devcontainers #opensource

3 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

May 8 '23

Introduction to Graph Databases

#opensource #database #postgres

3 min read

May 8 '23

My Journey to GSoC'2023

#gsoc #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

JerryMaoMao for ILLA Cloud

May 8 '23

Top 7 Redis GUI Tools in 2023

#illa #gui #redis #opensource

17 min read

Pete Cheslock for AppMap

May 4 '23

Top 5 VS Code extensions

#vscode #opensource #programming #beginners

3 min read

May 5 '23

Passing maintenance or deprecating projects?

#discuss #python #programming #opensource

2 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Apr 3 '23

FLaNK Stack Weekly 3 April 2023

#apachenifi #apacheflink #opensource #streaming

5 min read

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