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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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Michael Di Prisco

Jun 6 '23

My Journey in Open Source - random-delay

#javascript #typescript #github #opensource

1 min read

Jun 6 '23

My Outreachy Journey: Embracing Core Values and Exploring the Open Source World

#outreachy #opensource #mboalab

4 min read

Jun 6 '23

Paving the Way: Understanding the Outreachy Application Process

#outreachy #opensource #career #internship

7 min read

Maxime

Jun 5 '23

Paperless-ngx, manage your documents like never before

#docker #opensource #selfhosting #privacy

7 min read

Anton

Jun 5 '23

How to improve and standardize writing services in Ruby project

#ruby #rails #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Asmit Malakannawar

Jun 5 '23

From Mentee to Mentor: My Journey through LFX Mentorship

#lfx #mentorship #opensource #oras

6 min read

Atulpriya Sharma

Jun 5 '23

CNCF Landscape made easy with CNCF Navigator

#cloudnative #cncf #opensource

5 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Jun 5 '23

An Overview of Software as a Service (SaaS):

#azure #cloud #cloudcomputing #opensource

3 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Jun 5 '23

An Overview of Platform as a Service (PaaS)

#cloud #cloudcomputing #azure #opensource

2 min read

Cait Bixby for Tidelift

Jun 5 '23

Upstream speaker spotlight: Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation

#opensource #maintainer #upstream

2 min read

Jun 5 '23

Exploring the Ethereum Network: Fetching Account Balance with ethers.js

#javascript #web3 #etherjs #opensource

5 min read

Jun 5 '23

Firebase VS PocketBase VS Appwrite

#discuss #webdev #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Kruno Golubic for Memgraph

Jun 5 '23

What is MIT License?

#opensource #memgraph #licensing #development

8 min read

Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

Jun 1 '23

Apresentando GitHubBrasil.com

#githubbrasil #braziliandevs #opensource #community

2 min read

Jun 4 '23

MongoDB Abstract Repository for Node

#node #webdev #mongodb #opensource

6 min read

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