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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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Carlos V.

Jun 15 '22

GitHub Action to run mypy on changed files only

#python #github #opensource

1 min read

Jun 15 '22

Build smart wizards with react-wizardry

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Jun 15 '22

Deep Insights into Low-code Development Tools

#lowcode #opensource #github #programming

2 min read

Jun 15 '22

Making a local MicroK8s environment available externally (Part 4 - Running Docker Containers)

#docker #microk8s #devops #opensource

8 min read

Angular Templates

Jun 15 '22

Angular Material Templates - Open Source and Free 2022

#angular #material #template #opensource

3 min read

Jun 15 '22

Making a local MicroK8s environment available externally (Part 2 - Installing MicroK8s and MySQL)

#microk8s #opensource #devops #mysql

5 min read

DMetaSoul

Jun 15 '22

Quickly develop risk control algorithms in business scenarios based on MetaSpore

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

DMetaSoul

Jun 15 '22

A New One-stop AI development and production platform, AlphaIDE

#ai #machinelearning #bigdata #opensource

4 min read

Bobur Umurzokov for Apache APISIX

Jun 14 '22

Run Apache APISIX on Microsoft Azure Container Instance

#azure #apisix #opensource #devops

10 min read

Prashant Ghildiyal for Devtron

Jun 13 '22

7 Tools To Make Kubernetes Management Easy

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #go

5 min read

Jun 14 '22

Community Bonding Period GSoC'22

#gsoc #webdev #opensource #career

2 min read

Mozilla Developer

Jun 14 '22

Everything Is Broken: Shipping rust-minidump at Mozilla – Part 1

#mozilla #rust #firefox #opensource

19 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 8 '22

A new community space for open source maintainers and contributors! 🚀

#tidelift #forem #opensource

1 min read

Roman Belshevitz for Otomato

Jun 13 '22

Kubescape: a Kind Insurance Inspector for Your Kubernetes Investments

#devsecops #kubernetes #opensource #cve

5 min read

Jun 13 '22

Which Open Source Javascript Project can one contribute to?

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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