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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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DMetaSoul

May 29 '22

Solved a practical business problem when using Hudi: LakeSoul supports null field non-override semanticssemantics

#opensource #database #dataengineering #bigdata

3 min read

Johan Eliasson for Nhost

May 29 '22

Hasura Storage in Go: 5x performance increase and 40% less RAM

#node #go #opensource #hasura

5 min read

May 27 '22

Can anyone suggest some interesting backend projects ??

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

May 16 '22

What Tool Do You Wish Was Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #watercooler #programming

1 min read

May 25 '22

A Node.js configuration provider reading config from files, environment and arguments

#node #opensource #architecture #programming

10 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 27 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #114

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Precious Abubakar

May 28 '22

Contributhon 2022 by SheCodeAfrica

#opensource #beginners #wecoded

2 min read

LunaaaXO

May 14 '22

What is YOUR theme?

#programming #vscode #opensource

1 min read

Pramit Marattha for Aviyel Inc

May 25 '22

Aviyel announcement 📢: Supercharging OSS communities 🦄 with rewards and Tokens! [Product Hunt launch June 1st]

#discuss #web3 #startup #opensource

9 min read

Alessandro Gaggia for AWS Community Builders

May 27 '22

Stop putting AWS credentials in the credentials file

#aws #iam #security #opensource

6 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

May 26 '22

How You Can Create a Custom Endpoint in Medusa

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

5 min read

Medea

May 26 '22

Tenses of verbs - Python

#discuss #python #opensource #latin

3 min read

Keff

May 25 '22

I want to start contributing to OSS, what are your favorite projects YOU contribute to?

#help #opensource

1 min read

May 26 '22

How I crack GSoC 2022

#gsoc #google #opensource #beginners

5 min read

David de Torres

May 6 '22

Prometheus 2.35 – What’s new?

#kubernetes #cloud #opensource #monitoring

4 min read

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