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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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Lief Storer for Stellar Development Foundation

Jun 23 '23

Tech Talks with Tomer: The Challenges of Smart Contracts and Interoperability with Axelar Co-founder Sergey Gorbunov

#blockchain #interoperability #crypto #opensource

1 min read

Apr 25 '23

How to start open-source contribution as a new developer

#opensource #github #developer #beginners

3 min read

Anwar Sadat Ayub

Apr 25 '23

Mozilla Open Source Project: 10 Things I Learnt.

#webdev #opensource

2 min read

sfrunza13

Apr 15 '23

Git Actions

#git #opensource

2 min read

Apr 25 '23

RudderStack - The Open Source Alternative to Segment

#opensource #developer #devtools #database

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 24 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #154

#opensource #aws

21 min read

Gianluca

Apr 25 '23

Dynamic Customization of Kubernetes add-ons using Sveltos: Runtime Data Generation

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

4 min read

Shannon McFarland for Outshift By Cisco

Apr 24 '23

VMClarity: How to use the API

#sbom #opensource #api

2 min read

Lee Twito

Apr 24 '23

Rediscovering Frontend Fundamentals

#frontend #react #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Mar 21 '23

Chizzy: Your Virtual Friend for Navigating Remote Work Chaos

#uiweekly #productivity #nocode #opensource

1 min read

Mwendwa Bundi Emma

Apr 23 '23

How Medusa is Revolutionizing the Ecommerce Space

#ecommerce #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Apr 23 '23

Container runtime vocabulary

#docker #devops #containers #opensource

8 min read

rendick

Apr 21 '23

What is your favorite project that you have ever done?

#discuss #programming #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Hillary Nyakundi

Apr 23 '23

50+ AI Tools to Boost Productivity - Work Smarter, Not Harder

#productivity #ai #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Apr 21 '23

Hoppscotch Releases: SemVer to CalVer

#webdev #api #saas #opensource

4 min read

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