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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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Jing for AREX Test

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Production Traffic Replication with Java Agent

#opensource #java #testing

7 min read

Oct 9 '23

Replicating Data from Oracle to PostgreSQL - A Comprehensive Guide

#opensource #database #postgres

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Arafat Hossain Ar

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Simplifying Email Communication: Introducing Bulk Email Sender

#laravel #opensource #email #bulkemail

2 min read

Francesco Sardone

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Patreon Meets GitHub Sponsors

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #github

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Maintaining an Active Repository: My Hacktoberfest 2023 Experience

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource

3 min read

Northon Iserhardt

Oct 9 '23

Building an Interactive TikTok Live Game with Js

#opensource #programming #javascript #gamedev

3 min read

Oct 9 '23

Hacktoberfest: PR #2

#hacktoberfest23 #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Oct 9 '23

First Week Of HacktoberFest

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #beginners

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Oct 3 '23

How to be a Top Contributor this Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #career #hacktoberfest23

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Oct 8 '23

Refactoring my Codebase and Squashing Commits

#typescript #opensource #programming #beginners

2 min read

Geri Máté for dyrector.io

Oct 6 '23

What have you accomplished during this Hacktoberfest so far?

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23

1 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Oct 6 '23

Happy Hacktoween 🎃: My First Pull Request

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Sep 30 '23

🔥 A next-generation CLI tool for building amazing web apps in Go using htmx & hyperscript

#go #htmx #beginners #opensource

8 min read

Weasely

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📧 Introducing Email Inspector 📧

#node #opensource #npm #javascript

1 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

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Hacktoberfest 2023: The Complete Guide

#webdev #beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest23

9 min read

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