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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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Jul 9 '22

How I am bringing OSS contributing to Twitch, taking everyone with me and more...

#discuss #opensource #programming

1 min read

Jul 9 '22

Task::Date::Holidays bug fix release 0.12

#perl #release #opensource

1 min read

Rahul Jain

Jul 9 '22

Have you seen this sexy button?

#showdev #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jul 4 '22

This website is open source

#watercooler #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Memphis.dev team for Memphis.dev

Jul 7 '22

Here is why you need a message broker

#beginners #architecture #opensource #bigdata

7 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jul 6 '22

Show dev: I built an open-source landing page for Tailwind CSS

#showdev #tailwindcss #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mike Ryan

Jul 8 '22

The TypeScript Gluten Behind NgRx createActionGroup

#typescript #angular #ngrx #opensource

9 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

Jul 8 '22

ShardingSphere-Proxy Front-End Protocol Troubleshooting Guide and Examples

#database #opensource #saas #sql

10 min read

Jul 8 '22

My Six Months Strategy Plan for Building Up A Community.

#productivity #community #blog #opensource

2 min read

Shamanth Shetty for Kern AI

Jul 8 '22

10x your active learning via active transfer learning in NLP

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #machinelearning

3 min read

MakendranG

Jul 8 '22

Introduction to Devtron

#appops #devtron #kubernetes #opensource

2 min read

Jul 8 '22

Upload large file to GitHub

#github #file #opensource #programming

1 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Jun 27 '22

The Benefits of Using Microservices for Edge Devices

#microservices #opensource #library #luos

1 min read

Jul 8 '22

Release 0.25.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - a maintenance release including a security fix

#release #opensource #githubaction #spelling

2 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Jun 8 '22

PID, D as in Derivative

#opensource #tutorial #microservices #luos

1 min read

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