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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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Feb 13 '23

API Colombia, an open and free API about Colombia

#colombia #api #opensource

1 min read

Feb 13 '23

Outreachy: Experience with Adoptium

#opensource #sbom #java #eclipseadoptium

2 min read

Salmankhan2389 for TestMu AI

Feb 13 '23

Jan’23 Updates: Live With Digital Experience Testing Cloud, HyperExecute Enhancements, And More!

#testing #android #updates #opensource

6 min read

Feb 13 '23

Users and Groups in Linux — How to use chown and chgrp commands?

#github #git #opensource

7 min read

Fernanda Kipper

Feb 12 '23

A Beginner's Guide to Github Actions

#github #git #opensource #siliconvalley

4 min read

Sachin Chaurasiya for Medusa

Feb 9 '23

5 Best Headless CMS Platforms

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

7 min read

Feb 11 '23

Bug fix and maintenance release 1.62 of perl-workflow

#opensource #release #perl

2 min read

Vladimir Klepov

Feb 13 '23

I ditched Google analytics and went self-hosted

#programming #analytics #opensource #webdev

11 min read

Pencilcaseman for LibRapid

Feb 11 '23

Make std::vector 5x Faster with LibRapid

#cpp #librapid #optimisation #opensource

2 min read

Marcos

Feb 11 '23

Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track - Book Notes

#discuss #softwaredevelopment #opensource #community

4 min read

Idukpaye Osazuwa

Feb 11 '23

Frontend Mentor QR Component

#webdev #opensource #css #beginners

2 min read

YuehBen66

Feb 11 '23

Testing with MSW

#privacy #opensource #web3 #ai

5 min read

Jan 31 '23

US government agencies' opensource projects

#osdc #opensource #perl

1 min read

Feb 10 '23

Contributing to Jakarta EE. Finding my path.

#java #opensource #community #contributorswanted

2 min read

Feb 10 '23

Getting Started with Bottom Sheets in Android Using Kotlin Part 2 [Beginner Friendly]

#opensource #android #bottomsheet #kotlin

3 min read

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