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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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Contributing to Jakarta EE. Finding my path.

#java #opensource #community #contributorswanted

2 min read

Feb 10 '23

Getting Started with Bottom Sheets in Android Using Kotlin Part 2 [Beginner Friendly]

#opensource #android #bottomsheet #kotlin

3 min read

Oluwatoyin Ariyo

Feb 10 '23

100 Days of Code Day 11

#opensource #security #tooling #productivity

5 min read

juffel

Feb 10 '23

Ecto: Create a case insensitive unique index

#community #opensource #php #gratitude

1 min read

PyMeister

Feb 10 '23

How to Create Decorators in Django

#opensource #tooling #softwaredevelopment #productivity

1 min read

Feb 10 '23

Sourcery: A Free Tool for Better Python Code!

#coding #opensource #productivity #developertools

5 min read

Gianluca

Feb 9 '23

Kubernetes multi-tenancy with projectsveltos

#showdev #kubernetes #multitenancy #opensource

8 min read

James Mikrut for Payload CMS

Feb 9 '23

On GitHub Issues and Engineering Efficiency

#github #webdev #opensource #typescript

6 min read

Feb 9 '23

NextAPI - A Next.js RESTful API Starter for building SaaS Apps

#nextjs #javascript #opensource #programming

2 min read

Ajit

Feb 9 '23

Understanding React - A Beginner's Guide

#discuss #tooling #opensource

2 min read

Feb 8 '23

Why Push Notifications Are On The Rise & What To Do About It

#webdev #opensource #api #architecture

4 min read

Saurav Jain for Amplication

Feb 8 '23

Amplication in TechCrunch's Top 50 Open-Source Startups in 2022

#news #community #collaboration #opensource

2 min read

Ajisafe Victor Oluwapelumi

Feb 9 '23

(Solve) N Queens with Python

#security #opensource #softwareengineering

4 min read

Feb 8 '23

Should You Use char, varchar, or text in PostgreSQL?

#tooling #opensource #api #github

3 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Mar 24 '23

Google’s Bard AI: ChatGPT Rival or The Next Frontier in AI and NLP Technology

#fossstories #fossnaijanews #opensource

2 min read

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