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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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Marie Cruz for k6

Jan 11 '23

Get Started with k6 browser

#performance #opensource #tutorial #k6

11 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 9 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #140

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Medu

Jan 10 '23

Frontend Engineering: The Crucial Role it Plays in the Development Process

#opensource #github #software #developer

5 min read

Ante Javor for Memgraph

Jan 10 '23

How Much Money Will You Spend on Hosting a Database

#database #memgraph #opensource #aws

11 min read

Jan 8 '23

You Should Use Releases on GitHub

#github #opensource #releases

5 min read

Eden AI

Jan 10 '23

Open Source AI APIs Aggregator by Eden AI

#opensource #ai #api #github

6 min read

Jan 8 '23

7 Amazing GitHub Repositories Every Developer Should Follow in 2023

#programming #opensource #productivity #career

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 9 '23

Running KubernetesPodOperator Tasks in different AWS accounts

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Elham Najeebullah

Jan 10 '23

React: Create Infinite Scrolling With Intersection Observer API

#discuss #github #opensource #productivity

3 min read

David Przybilla

Jan 10 '23

The Dangers of GitHub and the Importance of Code Collaboration as a Protocol: Radicle

#github #git #web3 #opensource

8 min read

Cynthia Iradukunda

Jan 9 '23

How to contribute to open source as a beginner

#opensource #beginners

6 min read

costica

Jan 7 '23

Hacking a zero costs blogging system. With emails!

#showdev #webdev #opensource #jamstack

10 min read

foxgem

Dec 19 '22

st2: a fork of "string-table" with more enhancements.

#opensource #typescript #javascript #node

3 min read

Owoola Muhammed

Jan 8 '23

Altschool Github App Project

#discord #ai #automation #opensource

3 min read

Maxim Nosov ✪

Dec 10 '22

Final thoughts on contribution

#webdev #opensource #beginners #programming

2 min read

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