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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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Sm0ke

Dec 12 '22

Django Berry BS5 - Free PyPi Library

#django #berry #bootstrap5 #opensource

3 min read

Doğukan Eren for Açıklab

Dec 12 '22

Ubuntu 20.04 Sunucuya Zabbix 6.2 Kurulumu (Zabbix Server, Frontend, Agent)

#linux #beginners #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Dec 12 '22

InversifyJS has reached 100,000,000 downloads on npm 🎉 🚀

#javascript #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Lorain

Dec 12 '22

Use session middleware to implement distributed session solution based on Redis

#webdev #tutorial #go #opensource

7 min read

Dec 12 '22

Day 12: CI for sdk-py Python packages

#python #programming #opensource #devops

2 min read

Dec 12 '22

SQL extensions for time series data in QuestDB part II

#database #tutorial #opensource #sql

8 min read

Dec 11 '22

My first extension to Fig

#fig #macos #opensource #contribution

3 min read

julia ferraioli

Dec 9 '22

Open source and social systems

#opensource #sociotechnicalsystems #sustainability #ecosystems

2 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 10 '22

Django AdminLTE - PyPi Library

#adminlte #django #opensource

2 min read

Dec 11 '22

Day 11: CI for wp2txt Ruby project

#ruby #programming #opensource #devops

2 min read

AK

Dec 10 '22

Graph database plugin for RDBMS

#opensource #database #postgres #cypher

1 min read

Dec 10 '22

Day 10: GitHub Actions CI for the rdf-kv Ruby Gem

#ruby #opensource #programming #devops

1 min read

Dec 9 '22

Day 9: CI for Mojo-UserAgent-Cached and Plack-Middleware-Greylist

#perl #opensource #programming #devops

1 min read

Dec 9 '22

Set up Argos with Cypress and GitHub Actions in minutes

#testing #javascript #opensource #github

2 min read

lia

Nov 28 '22

How to schedule any file type to open at computer startup

#tutorial #python #opensource #cli

5 min read

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