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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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Jun 13 '23

I turned my company’s PC into my own “Vercel-like” platform

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #diginext

3 min read

Jun 13 '23

Unlocking Your Open Source Impact: How to Easily Retrieve and Share Your GitHub Contribution Link

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #github

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 12 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #160

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Bentil Shadrack for Documatic

Jun 12 '23

Harnessing the Power of Pair Programming: The Art of Coding Together

#programming #beginners #productivity #opensource

7 min read

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

Jun 12 '23

Best of 10 Open Source Alternative to SalesForce

#javascript #opensource #productivity #webdev

9 min read

Jun 13 '23

Why Pidgin 3 Skipped GTK 3

#opensource #development #repost

2 min read

ymc9 for ZenStack

Jun 13 '23

Our Open Source Journey: Seven Months In and Counting

#opensource #career #startup #webdev

6 min read

Marc Seitz

Jun 7 '23

Building an Open Source DocSend alternative with Next.js, Vercel Blob and Postgres 🚀

#react #opensource #nextjs #typescript

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 12 '23

Integrating Keycloak as my Identity Provider for IAM Identity Centre: Part two, configuring Keycloak as my Identity provider

#opensource #aws #security #sso

5 min read

Cyril Rohr

Jun 12 '23

Automated preview deployments from GitHub to AWS in 10 minutes

#aws #githubactions #devops #opensource

4 min read

Jun 13 '23

7 Strategies for Better Debugging

#programming #beginners #opensource #testing

2 min read

Jun 9 '23

[Nestia] I made backend simulator for frontend developers (similar with MSW, but fully automated)

#opensource #typescript #nestjs #programming

12 min read

Ohav Almog for Jit - Minimum Viable Security for Developers

Jun 12 '23

Playing Around with AWS-Vault for Fun & Profit

#aws #opensource #security #cloud

7 min read

Dmitriy A. for Globalping

Jun 12 '23

Become Part of the Globalping Community: How to Run a Virtual Probe

#opensource #network #networking #devops

5 min read

Idan Elhalwani for krud.dev

Jun 12 '23

Ostara Version 0.10.0 Has Been Released

#discuss #java #opensource #devops

4 min read

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