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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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MindsDB Team for MindsDB

Oct 5 '22

Hacktoberfest 2022 - Contribute and win great prizes!

#hacktoberfest #mindsdb #opensource #programming

3 min read

Maciej Swiderski

Oct 6 '22

Define workflows with Java DSL

#workflow #java #dsl #opensource

2 min read

Oct 29 '22

Unit testing like a Hacker🧪

#opensource #testing #beginners #tutorial

7 min read

CDPhu

Oct 6 '22

JSON Config Parser

#rust #opensource #codenewbie #testing

2 min read

MakendranG for AWS Community Builders

Oct 5 '22

A Deep Dive Into Just-in-Time Worker Nodes With Karpenter

#aws #beginners #tutorial #opensource

10 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Oct 5 '22

Not feeling ready for Open Source?

#opensource #beginners #github #codenewbie

3 min read

William McGonagle

Oct 5 '22

🤯 Wait... You’re building a code simulator?!

#flutter #webdev #opensource #programming

2 min read

geraldew

Oct 5 '22

A Beginner's Guide to Copyright, Programming and Software - Short Version

#beginners #copyright #opensource

7 min read

Oct 4 '22

Feature release 1.32 of Date::Holidays Perl distribution

#perl #release #cpan #opensource

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Oct 3 '22

Medusa Hackathon 2022: Participation Tips and Guidelines

#news #opensource #programming #webdev

5 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Sep 26 '22

How to get ready for Hacktoberfest 2022

#hacktoberfest #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

SnykSec for Snyk

Oct 5 '22

Phony PyPi package imitates known developer

#opensource #vulnerabilities #python #pypi

5 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Necati Özmen for Refine

Oct 4 '22

refine Joins the Hacktoberfest Fun

#hacktoberfest #opensource #react #programming

1 min read

Mayank Ranjan for Quokka Labs

Oct 4 '22

Top 10 Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools You Should Know About

#javascript #opensource #programming #beginners

8 min read

Julia Heitner for RippleX Developers

Oct 4 '22

XRPL Grants Wave 4 AMA

#xrpl #xrplgrants #opensource #discord

8 min read

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