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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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Nov 15 '22

C++ unit testing with Catch2 🧪👨‍🔬

#github #opensource #cpp #beginners

4 min read

TD

Nov 14 '22

Experimenting with linters, formatters, and pre-commit hooks

#opensource #javascript #beginners #testing

4 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 12 '22

dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 5

#community #opensource #programming #ruby

1 min read

Genne23v

Nov 5 '22

For Contributors to my OpenSSG

#java #opensource #statcisitegenerator

3 min read

Nov 15 '22

Ansible Inventory Plugin

#ansible #aws #python #opensource

2 min read

Nov 14 '22

My first serverless function on DigitalOcean

#digitalocean #go #opensource #serverless

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 14 '22

AWS open source newsletter, #135

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 11 '22

dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 4

#programming #community #opensource #ruby

1 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Nov 14 '22

🧪🐍✨Unit Testing Python Code With The unittest Framework

#python #opensource #github #beginners

5 min read

Maxim Nosov ✪

Nov 14 '22

Continuous integration pipeline

#opensource #javascript #jest #node

2 min read

Toul

Nov 14 '22

Ch.2 GO Basics

#go #beginners #codenewbie #opensource

9 min read

Viktor Djupsjöbacka for Supermetrics

Nov 14 '22

Optimizing JSONPath lookups in PHP to extract data up to 7 times faster

#php #opensource #jsonpath #api

5 min read

Nov 11 '22

Best of GitHub Universe 2022 - or so I opine

#github #opensource #security #funding

4 min read

Helitha Rupasinghe

Nov 17 '22

A Beginner's Guide to Content Management Systems

#opensource #beginners #webdev #tutorial

4 min read

Pascal Thormeier

Nov 8 '22

dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 1

#programming #opensource #community #fun

1 min read

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