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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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Yasunori Kirimoto for AWS Heroes

Mar 2 '23

Contribute to AWS Amplify

#amplify #amazonlocationservice #aws #opensource

16 min read

Fernando

Mar 2 '23

Background jobs for Kemal server in Crystal lang

#crystal #docker #opensource #programming

5 min read

Mar 2 '23

Build your own Tana clone with this new frontend

#showdev #opensource #frontend #javascript

1 min read

teddav

Mar 2 '23

Foundry: open source contribution

#ethereum #solidity #rust #opensource

5 min read

Medea

Mar 2 '23

Latin x Python: The End?

#devjournal #webdev #python #opensource

1 min read

Erin A Olinick for CodeNewbie

Feb 27 '23

S'Monday 😪 Alan Kay

#flutter #opensource #productivity #career

1 min read

Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Mar 2 '23

Join Postman for Google Summer of Code

#api #beginners #opensource #postman

2 min read

Aviv Mor for krud.dev

Mar 2 '23

Strategy Design Pattern with Spring Boot + Kotlin - Cleaner code with no boilerplate

#opensource #architecture #oop #spring

4 min read

Honeybadger Staff for Honeybadger

Mar 2 '23

An Introduction To Hanami 2.0

#discuss #ai #opensource #security

12 min read

Ridhwana Khan for The DEV Team

Feb 10 '23

Caching at DEV

#performance #tutorial #opensource #webdev

15 min read

Mar 1 '23

Revolutionize Your DevOps with ChatGPT: Boost Productivity and Streamline Tasks

#showdev #github #opensource

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 14 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 50)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Mar 1 '23

My Journey in Open Source - soft-delete-migrator

#javascript #tutorial #opensource #github

5 min read

Pete Cheslock for AppMap

Feb 28 '23

Code-First Auto-Generated OpenAPI Docs for Django Applications

#discuss #welcome #opensource #mobile

4 min read

Harish Rajora for TestMu AI

Mar 1 '23

How To Test Websites And Apps For Black Friday And Cyber Monday

#discuss #community #softwaredevelopment #opensource

14 min read

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