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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 3 '22

Announcing the Pen programming language v0.4

#functional #programming #language #opensource

5 min read

Austin Cunningham

Jul 4 '22

Changing an Existing Kubernetes Operator to cluster scoped

#kubernetes #openshift #operatorsdk #opensource

2 min read

Hugo Bollon for Camptocamp Infrastructure Solutions

Jul 4 '22

How I deployed a serverless and high availability Blackbox Exporter on AWS Fargate

#devops #aws #monitoring #opensource

6 min read

Jul 4 '22

The Accidental Go Package Repository Contributor

#go #repo #opensource

3 min read

Akanksha kumari

Jul 3 '22

Leetcode solutions in golang

#leetcode #go #github #opensource

1 min read

Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen for The Transient Thoughts of a Restless Mind

Jul 3 '22

Avoiding accidental open-source laundering with GitHub Copilot

#github #githubcopilot #ethics #opensource

2 min read

julia ferraioli

Jun 4 '22

How to empower your open source users and contributors

#opensource #socialmodel #empowerment

5 min read

Jul 4 '22

Deep Insights into Programming Languages

#programming #github #opensource #database

2 min read

Jul 3 '22

Coding Period GSoC'22 | Week 2 + 3

#opensource #career #gsoc22

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jul 1 '22

React Horizon UI - Open-Source Firebase Starter

#webdev #react #firebase #opensource

4 min read

Jul 3 '22

I created a minimal, responsive, open-source developer portfolio template with React!

#showdev #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Jul 3 '22

Diff Decompiled Minecraft Versions

#java #programming #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Jul 3 '22

Fixing C++ with a new open source project

#cpp #opensource #programming

3 min read

Burak Gür

Jul 2 '22

Create ToDo App With Nuxt 3 Composition API

#javascript #vue #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Jul 2 '22

Linux basics: common terminology of the Linux world

#linux #beginners #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

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