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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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Aaron Westbrook

May 13 '22

Visually building websites

#webdev #productivity #html #opensource

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

May 13 '22

How to build a Tailwind CSS Select Dropdown component with Flowbite

#tailwindcss #opensource #webdev #tutorial

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 13 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #112

#opensource #aws

14 min read

May 13 '22

How to deploy SuperTokens with React and NodeJS on Vercel

#authentication #security #opensource #jwt

3 min read

Rahul Rai for Lightstep

May 13 '22

OpenTelemetry in Action: Optimizing Database Operations

#observability #database #dotnet #opensource

13 min read

oteri

May 12 '22

How to Build an Income Tracker Using Vue.js and Appwrite

#appwritehack #vue #tutorial #opensource

8 min read

Anvil Engineering

Apr 13 '22

Manipulate and query GraphQL Schemas with ease using Microfiber

#graphql #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Raman Sharma for DigitalOcean

May 12 '22

Use this starter kit to quickly implement Kubernetes

#digitalocean #kubernetes #devops #opensource

5 min read

May 10 '22

Going offline

#opensource #burnout #work #hobbies

10 min read

May 12 '22

Announcing stable FlutterFire Auth for Desktop

#flutter #firebase #opensource

4 min read

Samuel-Zacharie FAURE

May 11 '22

Why aren't you on Neovim yet?

#discuss #opensource #vim

1 min read

Carlos Padilla for Medusa

May 12 '22

How to Use a Monorepo to Deploy Your Gatsby Ecommerce Storefront and Admin

#javascript #opensource #webdev #hosting

10 min read

Juri Strumpflohner for Nrwl

May 11 '22

Lerna is dead - Long Live Lerna

#monorepo #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Alessandro Gaggia for AWS Community Builders

May 12 '22

Shortcut for AWS CDK credentials: insanely simple setup for SSO, SAML, and named profiles

#aws #security #opensource #cdk

6 min read

May 12 '22

How to learn Git - a guide for beginners

#beginners #git #github #opensource

3 min read

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