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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.

submission guidelines

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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Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Dec 14 '22

Uncovering Open Source B2B Ecommerce

#showdev #opensource #programming #javascript

3 min read

Dheeraj Purohit

Dec 14 '22

Props Revisited

#machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

Dec 14 '22

Erlang Fibonacci

#discuss #opensource #devrel

3 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Dec 14 '22

Unsafe deserialization vulnerability in SnakeYaml (CVE-2022-1471)

#java #opensource #vulnerabilities #security

5 min read

Mehr Muhammad Hamza

Dec 13 '22

Java Create PDF (Without Losing Formatting)

#python #go #nextjs #opensource

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 12 '22

AWS open source newsletter, #138

#opensource #aws

23 min read

Dec 13 '22

Happy path: Publishing a Lit-based custom element to npmjs.com

#github #npm #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Dec 13 '22

Happy Seeding with Faker

#opensource #npm #react #sideprojects

3 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Dec 12 '22

B2B Commerce w. Medusa: Set up a headless Node.js backend (1/2)

#javascript #opensource #programming #webdev

13 min read

Doğukan Eren for Açıklab

Dec 13 '22

Yedekli Zabbix 6.2 Kurulumu (HAProxy, Patroni, PostgreSQL)

#beginners #tutorial #linux #opensource

7 min read

Jerry

Dec 13 '22

5 Tips for contributing to open source

#beginners #opensource #programming #github

4 min read

Dec 13 '22

Day 13: CI for a Python project of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

#python #opensource #programming #devops

3 min read

Michael Bogan for Salesforce Developers

Dec 12 '22

Light DOM and Lightning Web Components in Salesforce

#webdev #salesforce #opensource #javascript

5 min read

Cynthia Iradukunda

Dec 12 '22

How I got into the Outreachy Program

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie

3 min read

Dec 12 '22

Introduction to CI/CD

#webdev #tutorial #programming #opensource

4 min read

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