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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 1 '23

Building a Startup from Scratch: My Mistakes as CTO

#startup #programming #architecture #opensource

13 min read

Stefan

Jan 31 '23

Recreating Nike - Medusa & Next.js

#nextjs #opensource #programming #javascript

9 min read

Feb 1 '23

The joy, the pride and the burden of maintaining open source

#opensource #github #javascript #webdev

6 min read

Amy Hays for Tidelift

Jan 31 '23

Save the date: Upstream 2023 is June 7

#opensource #maintainers #events

3 min read

theredfish for Owl Duty

Jan 31 '23

🦗Grillon: an expressive Rust library to test your HTTP APIs

#opensource #rust #testing #api

3 min read

Shan

Jan 31 '23

How to use get_it package in flutter

#flutter #programming #dart #opensource

3 min read

Jan 31 '23

Need another side project idea?

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Jan 30 '23

What is the Total.js Platform?

#node #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Dec 28 '22

Year 2022 Streaming Wrap-Up

#apachepulsar #opensource #apacheflink #apachenifi

32 min read

Dileepa Mabulage

Jan 30 '23

Access Azure KeyVault Secrets Through Nodejs Application

#extensions #opensource #tooling

6 min read

ryo-ma

Jan 19 '23

🚀 How to manage the Open Data in your project / Release package manager for open data📦

#showdev #github #opensource #datascience

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Jan 29 '23

How I Get Into The Open-Source World

#opensource #webdev #beginners #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Jan 29 '23

Using Pivot Chart to Replace Your Pivot Table

#javascript #opensource #react #datascience

1 min read

Xing Wang

Jan 28 '23

Top 5 GO REST API Frameworks

#python #machinelearning #opensource #github

9 min read

Jan 27 '23

Understanding open source communities with Quine

#tutorial #github #opensource #startup

3 min read

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