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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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 3 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #163

#opensource #aws

12 min read

Carolina for Meilisearch

Jul 4 '23

How to deliver the best search results: inside a full text search engine

#programming #opensource #algorithms #database

10 min read

Jul 4 '23

Amazon EC2 Basics

#aws #cloud #opensource #ec2

4 min read

Jul 4 '23

Using Prune to Manage Backups

#linux #backup #opensource

2 min read

Jul 4 '23

API Prototypes with dbb and my first attemp to join to OpenSource World

#elixir #prototype #api #opensource

3 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

May 30 '23

FLaNK Stack Weekly 29 may 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apachefl #opensource

4 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Jun 29 '23

Highlight Your Open Source Contributions

#opensource #github #beginners

4 min read

Jul 3 '23

How to Learn Linux.

#linux #opensource #technology

2 min read

Jul 3 '23

Speed test building Next.js T3 App with Github Actions, Circle CI, Vercel & Diginext

#diginext #performance #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Jun 25 '23

[Typia] I made realtime demo site of 20,000x faster validation (+200x faster JSON stringify)

#programming #typescript #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Alex Inkin

Jul 2 '23

Maskito: a Holy Grail of input masking

#webdev #javascript #frontend #opensource

5 min read

Jul 2 '23

Open Threads: Unleashing the Power of Collaborative Conversations

#openthreads #opensource #coding #beginners

4 min read

Uri Peled

Jul 1 '23

LangChain vs. LLM-Client

#llm #openai #opensource #python

4 min read

Jun 30 '23

Deleting All Containers in One Command: Streamlining Container Management

#docker #containers #opensource

1 min read

Yshayy for Livecycle

Jun 28 '23

Simplifying preview environments for everyone

#docker #containers #opensource #devex

11 min read

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