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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.

submission guidelines

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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Apr 7 '23

Adding a boomerang effect to our Spyrograph animations

#python #opensource #tutorial #contributorswanted

3 min read

Jake Evans for Valink Solutions

Apr 7 '23

Crafting Robust Minecraft Backup Tools: A Deep Dive into ChunkVault-Lite and Teller-CLI

#python #opensource #learning #svelte

12 min read

Gonçalo Amaral

Apr 7 '23

What is io_uring?

#programming #linux #computerscience #opensource

3 min read

Apr 7 '23

A Comprehensive Comparison of JuiceFS and HDFS for Cloud-Based Big Data Storage

#bigdata #opensource #cloud

11 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Apr 7 '23

How we built a proxy service for our OSS tool "Preevy"

#opensource #programming #productivity #tutorial

5 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Apr 7 '23

Introducing "Preevy" - Instant preview environments for complex applications

#opensource #webdev #devops #productivity

2 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

Apr 6 '23

Exploring Shortest Path Algorithms with Apache AGE

#database #opensource #postgres

6 min read

Apr 6 '23

Creating mesmerizing spirograph animations with Python and Spyrograph

#showdev #python #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Apr 6 '23

3rd Open Software and Open Standards Code Sprint: Call for Mentors 📢

#mentoring #hackfest #opensource #rest

4 min read

Manuel Gil @imgildev

Apr 6 '23

SemVer: Qué es y por qué es importante para el desarrollo de software

#spanish #opensource #programming #semver

6 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

Apr 5 '23

Uncovering Credit Card Thieves: A Graph-Based Approach with Apache AGE

#opensource #database #tutorial #apacheage

9 min read

Apr 5 '23

DevOps for people

#javascript #webdev #devops #opensource

1 min read

Sebastian Rindom for Medusa

Apr 4 '23

Medusa: A New Way to Build Commerce

#news #opensource #webdev #javascript

4 min read

Archer Allstars

Apr 4 '23

Modeling: make inside faces colored, differentiate between the outside and inside faces in Blender

#beginners #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Apr 4 '23

Trending ML repos of the week 📈

#machinelearning #opensource #github

3 min read

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