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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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Mohamed Mokhtar

Jun 8 '23

Introduction to RangeTableEntry (RTE) & Query from PostgresQL perspective

#postgres #database #apacheage #opensource

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jun 2 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 44)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Jun 7 '23

Git Fork and Git Clone: The difference and why it's important!

#github #beginners #git #opensource

3 min read

Jun 7 '23

Building a Mini DBMS Project Using GitHub Repositories: A Step-by-Step Guide for College Students

#beginners #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jun 7 '23

Generate API references for your python 🐍 projects !

#tutorial #python #tooling #opensource

2 min read

Maxime

Jun 7 '23

The holy grail of note-taking: Private data, efficient methodology and P2P encrypted sync across all your devices

#opensource #selfhosting #privacy #tutorial

11 min read

exyte

Jun 7 '23

Jetpack Compose Tutorial: Replicating the Water Level Widget

#programming #tutorial #opensource #android

8 min read

Jun 6 '23

Swiftmailer on PHP 8.2

#php #symfony #opensource #mail

1 min read

Brianna Blacet for Outshift By Cisco

Jun 7 '23

Securing the Software Supply Chain: The Struggle Is (Still) Real

#opensource #sbom #supplychainsecurity

6 min read

Jun 5 '23

Say Goodbye to Error Chaos in Flutter with Talker 3.0

#flutter #dart #opensource #mobile

3 min read

Thibaut

Jun 6 '23

Python : Yspeed ⚡⚡

#python #programming #devops #opensource

1 min read

Jun 6 '23

Deploy Free Figma Alternative Penpot With Docker

#docker #webdev #tutorial #opensource

8 min read

Jun 4 '23

Beyond OpenAI: Harnessing Open Source Models to Create Your Personalized AI Companion 🤖

#opensource #machinelearning #ai #python

8 min read

amycutlip

Jun 6 '23

Meet React to Web Component (R2WC) v2

#react #webcomponents #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 5 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #159

#opensource #aws

15 min read

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