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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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williamfzc

Mar 20 '23

One step to speed up testing cycle based on code diff. For multiple languages.

#devops #opensource #testing

2 min read

Apr 9 '23

Day1 -#90DaysofDevops Introduction to DevOps

#90daysofdevops #devops #cloud #opensource

2 min read

xuri

Apr 9 '23

Excelize 2.7.1 Released - Powerful open-source library for spreadsheet (Excel) document

#go #excel #excelize #opensource

4 min read

Francois Zaninotto

Mar 29 '23

Using Copilot to Review Code And Fund Open-Source Projects

#ai #githubcopilot #gpt #opensource

4 min read

codeagboro

Mar 19 '23

Handling exception in Node Js Express

#programming #javascript #node #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 7 '23

Working with Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) and Amazon Redshift

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Ege Aytin

Apr 6 '23

Exploring Google Zanzibar: A Demonstration of Its Basics

#go #opensource #webdev #security

12 min read

Apr 8 '23

Tracing multiple shapes on the same screen with Spyrograph

#showdev #python #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Apr 7 '23

How to build a jumbotron component using Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #flowbite #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Bobur Umurzokov

Apr 7 '23

How Change Data Capture (CDC) Works with Streaming Database

#database #sql #webdev #opensource

8 min read

P J MOHAMMED SHOAIB

Apr 7 '23

Discovering the Path to Contributing to Open Source: My Personal Journey

#opensource #beginners #programming

3 min read

Apr 7 '23

Adding a boomerang effect to our Spyrograph animations

#python #opensource #tutorial #contributorswanted

3 min read

Jake Evans for Valink Solutions

Apr 7 '23

Crafting Robust Minecraft Backup Tools: A Deep Dive into ChunkVault-Lite and Teller-CLI

#python #opensource #learning #svelte

12 min read

Gonçalo Amaral

Apr 7 '23

What is io_uring?

#programming #linux #computerscience #opensource

3 min read

Apr 7 '23

A Comprehensive Comparison of JuiceFS and HDFS for Cloud-Based Big Data Storage

#bigdata #opensource #cloud

11 min read

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