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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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Chinwenma Okorie

Jul 25 '23

Embracing the Power of Open Source:My Journey from Confusion to Collaboration

#100daysofoss #opensource #javascript #react

2 min read

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Marvin

Jul 26 '23

10 things about feature flags that will speed-up your workflow

#webdev #productivity #opensource #react

3 min read

Tom Nats for Starburst

Jul 26 '23

Introduction to Apache Iceberg in Trino

#iceberg #trino #sql #opensource

5 min read

Vladimir Mihailenco for Uptrace

Jul 26 '23

Monitoring Rails using OpenTelemetry and Uptrace

#rails #webdev #opensource #monitoring

4 min read

Antonello Zanini for Apostrophe

Jul 26 '23

How AI Is Transforming the CMS Industry

#tutorial #opensource #ai #webdev

8 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 24 '23

Setting Goals for Your Open Source Contributions

#challenge #opensource #codenewbie #beginners

6 min read

Seth Phat

Jul 26 '23

📃 😎 DocKing: manage document templates & render PDFs microservice

#microservices #opensource #vue #php

1 min read

Jul 26 '23

Weekly web development resources #159

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

okamos

Jun 26 '23

An Essential CloudFormation Template for robust Scheduled Tasks in ECS on EC2

#aws #ecs #cloudformation #opensource

4 min read

Vaunt

Jul 25 '23

Generic HTTP Handlers

#go #programming #opensource #developer

9 min read

Jul 12 '23

The Magic of Empty Git Commit

#git #opensource #beginners #programming

1 min read

Nick Tchayka for The Agile Monkeys

Jul 25 '23

Baby's First Contribution - A GitHub Flow for non-devs

#beginners #github #opensource #vscode

6 min read

Jul 25 '23

Super Context: Unleashing Blazing Performance for Your ReactJS Apps!

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jul 25 '23

Open source JavaScript Quiz App

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 24 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #166

#opensource #aws

21 min read

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