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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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Alvin Lee

Jan 13 '23

A Guide to Successful DevOps in Web3

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #github #socialmedia

6 min read

Dmtro Harazdovskiy

Jan 12 '23

Test Postgres using only this jest plugin (no DB mocks/Docker)!

#ai #opensource #softwaredevelopment #productivity

4 min read

Jan 12 '23

Using OpenWeatherMap API and Tkinter to create a graphical weather app

#discuss #opensource #community

3 min read

Jan 12 '23

The framework that revolutionized my workflow.

#webdev #opensource #productivity #typescript

3 min read

Jan 12 '23

Understanding the basics and advanced concepts of RDBMS and SQL for data science and analysis

#opensource #productivity #softwaredevelopment #coding

11 min read

Allen Helton for AWS Heroes

Jan 11 '23

How I Built An Open Source Serverless Newsletter Platform

#serverless #blogging #opensource

8 min read

Jonah Goldsmith

Jan 13 '23

Don't Be Scared of Ternary Operators

#opensource #github #programming #contributorswanted

1 min read

Dmitry Shatokhin

Jan 12 '23

Efficient State Management in JavaScript Apps with Statemanjs

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Thomas Segura for GitGuardian

Jan 11 '23

Thinking Like a Hacker: Finding Source Code Leaks on GitHub

#github #githunt #cybersecurity #opensource

5 min read

Jan 11 '23

Weekly web development resources #132

#watercooler #gamedev #opensource

2 min read

Vincent A. Cicirello

Jan 11 '23

Automate Updating Major Release Tag on New Releases of a GitHub Action

#discuss #opensource #productivity #community

4 min read

Can Mingir for Nucleoid

Jan 10 '23

react-event: Event-driven Alternative to React Context

#vscode #typescript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

holger

Jan 11 '23

Azure SDK for Python: WAM Support in Beta/Pre-Release

#opensource #ai #security

2 min read

Memgraph for Memgraph

Jan 11 '23

Best Databases for Streaming Analytics

#discuss #firstpost #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Abiodun Olowode for AppSignal

Jan 11 '23

A Guide to Memoization in Ruby

#opensource #webdev #sql #sideprojects

7 min read

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