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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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Md Manawar Iqbal

Nov 10 '22

GIT interview Questions

#git #opensource #github #codenewbie

8 min read

Nov 21 '22

Introduce Continuous Integration (CI) to the starpy Python project

#python #opensource #github #testing

1 min read

Justin Patriquin

Nov 21 '22

Releasing Rust Binaries with GitHub Actions - Part 2

#rust #github #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Nov 21 '22

🔒 Next Auth vs SST Auth

#wordpress #opensource #llm

8 min read

Kaye Alvarado for Developers @ Asurion

Nov 21 '22

Simulating Multiple Client Load Tests in Gatling with GitHub Actions

#opensource

5 min read

Daniel Hu

Nov 21 '22

Top 10 Open-Source DevOps Tools That You Should Know

#devops #devstream #opensource

7 min read

sfrunza13

Nov 21 '22

In Over My Head

#opensource #github

7 min read

Nov 21 '22

Changing The Game of Ticketing Using Revise and NFTs

#web3 #javascript #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Jemimah Nagasha

Oct 31 '22

Open Source Contributions — How I Started Contributing To Open Source

#opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Nov 20 '22

Setting up a "confidential" GitLab🦊🔒

#tutorial #devops #opensource #tooling

5 min read

L2ncE

Nov 20 '22

How to implement an elegant service discovery extension in the HTTP framework

#webdev #beginners #go #opensource

6 min read

Necati Özmen for Refine

Nov 19 '22

How to Create Dynamic Forms in React CRUD app with Ant Design

#webdev #react #tutorial #opensource

18 min read

Genne23v

Nov 19 '22

Contribution to Crowdin CLI

#java #opensource #testing

2 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Nov 15 '22

From PHP to JS ecommerce: Migrate from Magento and stay open source 🤩

#opensource #javascript #react #webdev

4 min read

Nov 19 '22

Firebase + Reactjs = Fireactjs, the open source framework for building user portals

#react #firebase #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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