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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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Celeste van der Watt for Platform.sh

Aug 31 '23

Step up your debugging game with Blackfire's new debug option to troubleshoot Segfaults 👾

#webdev #opensource #tutorial #php

1 min read

Aug 31 '23

Supabase ⚡ database functions

#javascript #supabase #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Thomas G. Lopes for Appwrite

Aug 30 '23

Inside Appwrite's new Command Center

#appwrite #svelte #ai #opensource

6 min read

Aug 31 '23

Simplifying your Kubernetes infrastructure with cdk8s

#kubernetes #opensource #go #devops

7 min read

Fernando for IDURAR AI , Inc | Where Ai Build Software

Aug 29 '23

❤️6 open-source libraries you must contribute❤️

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Sep 11 '23

Simplify KYC with PAN and Aadhaar Card OCR

#ocr #opensource #javascript #aadhaar

2 min read

Thomas G. Lopes for Appwrite

Aug 30 '23

Introducing AI Enhanced Command Center for Appwrite Console

#appwrite #opensource #svelte #ai

3 min read

Salah Eddine Lalami for IDURAR AI , Inc | Where Ai Build Software

Aug 28 '23

How to get Sponsored by DigitalOcean for Your Open Source Project

#webdev #programming #opensource #devops

3 min read

Jeffery Thompson

Aug 30 '23

10 Surprising Benefits of Using Open-Source Technologies

#opensource #webdev #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering

11 min read

gdemarcq

Aug 30 '23

How to train YOLOv7 object detection on a custom dataset

#showdev #python #opensource #datascience

7 min read

Fernando for IDURAR AI , Inc | Where Ai Build Software

Aug 22 '23

⭐5 open-source libraries you must know⭐ Week 2

#webdev #opensource #beginners #programming

3 min read

Francesco Tisiot for Aiven

Aug 30 '23

Consume Apache Kafka® messages via REST APIs

#apachekafka #rest #http #opensource

3 min read

Gianluca

Aug 30 '23

How to Deploy, Break, Debug and Fix a Guestbook App with Kubernetes

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

4 min read

Aug 30 '23

How to Manage Identity & Authorization with Kratos

#opensource #go #kratos #docker

3 min read

Laura Vuorenoja

Aug 30 '23

My First Time at GopherCon

#go #speaking #opensource #diversity

7 min read

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