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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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ringabout

Mar 27 '23

Contribute to the Python-like Nim language

#nim #opensource #contributorswanted #programming

2 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Mar 27 '23

FLaNK Stack Weekly 27 March 2023

#apachenifi #opensource #apachekafka #apacheflink

7 min read

Marco Aurélio Silva de Souza Júnior

Mar 27 '23

Cypher on PostgreSQL: A Reason to Use Apache AGE

#apacheage #opensource #sql #postgres

2 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Mar 22 '23

Create a Pull Request from Visual Studio Code on GitHub

#vscode #github #opensource #codenewbie

5 min read

Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

Mar 23 '23

LEIA-ME ou te devoro: Como escrever um bom README

#braziliandevs #githubbrasil #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

karolk

Mar 27 '23

Schedule / Timeline for React with Planby 2.3.0 🚀

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

1 min read

Amanda

Mar 25 '23

Open Source will make you better at Community

#devrel #community #opensource

3 min read

Mar 27 '23

Perl Weekly #609 - Open Source and your workplace

#news #perl #discuss #opensource

7 min read

Mohamed Mokhtar

Mar 26 '23

[GDB] Debugging session PostgreSQL & AGE

#postgres #sql #age #opensource

1 min read

Iaroslavna Nezhinskaia

Mar 26 '23

How can I contribute to Open Source as a Project Manager? Part 1

#java #opensource #team #projectmanager

1 min read

andre aliaman for AWS Community Builders

Mar 26 '23

Key Enhancements to AWS CDK Every Developer Should be Aware of

#news #beginners #aws #opensource

3 min read

Madhu Kumar for AWS Heroes

Mar 26 '23

Legends of Linux Trivia — Red Hat Free Badges

#redhat #linux #opensource

1 min read

Dmitrii Kovanikov

Mar 26 '23

New OSS rule: Do as little work as possible

#opensource #haskell

2 min read

Tykok

Feb 24 '23

Chinese npm package 汉译英

#todayilearned #npm #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Luiz Eduardo Kowalski

Mar 25 '23

How to migrate from Docker Desktop to Colima on a Mac M1

#docker #colima #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

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