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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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Apache ShardingSphere

Jul 13 '22

ShardingSphere Cloud Applications: An out-of-the-box ShardingSphere-Proxy Cluster

#cloud #database #opensource #saas

5 min read

Tomer Barnea for novu

Jul 6 '22

Building an open-source company in public

#podcast #productivity #opensource #startup

4 min read

Hung Vu

Jul 9 '22

12 Free Headless CMSs for Blogs and Portfolio sites 💗

#tutorial #webdev #programming #opensource

19 min read

Andy Piper

Jul 9 '22

What I've been doing in 2022 (so far)

#community #opensource #devrel #emfcamp

9 min read

EMQ Technologies for EMQ Technologies

Jul 12 '22

MQTT for Elixir

#mqtt #elixir #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

MakendranG

Jul 12 '22

Why we need to use devtron ?

#beginners #devtron #opensource #devops

3 min read

Trc0g

Jul 12 '22

Veinmind：An open source container security detection tool

#productivity #opensource #security #docker

2 min read

Akhil Jay

Jun 30 '22

Looking for feedback: Tired of spending hours setting up the infra for open sourced tools?

#discuss #productivity #opensource #cloud

1 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jul 11 '22

Basics / Code Organization for embedded

#luos #embedded #opensource #microservices

1 min read

Shamanth Shetty for Kern AI

Jun 30 '22

How to engineer prompts for Zero-Shot modules

#showdev #productivity #opensource #machinelearning

3 min read

Michael

Jul 10 '22

Keagate: Open-source, high-performance alternative to Coinbase Commerce & CoinGate.

#opensource #blockchain #webdev #javascript

1 min read

Sam

Jul 9 '22

Open-Source contribution, a beginner's guide (in 2 minutes).

#opensource #beginners #programming #github

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jul 10 '22

How to build a mega menu with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial #webdev

7 min read

HC

Jul 10 '22

Create a table with multiple features in few minutes

#vue #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Jun 29 '22

Why is standardized data so important in embedded systems?

#discuss #opensource #microservices #luos

1 min read

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