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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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Greptime

Nov 7 '23

Chaos Engineering - Who's to Blame for the Bug Mess?

#database #chaosengineering #rust #opensource

4 min read

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Nov 1 '23

24 Best Resources 🎨 For Web Developers 💻 [HTML + CSS + JavaScript] 😱

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Nov 27 '23

🐧 Unlocking the Power of Penguins: 5 Reasons and Benefits to Learn Linux! 🚀

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Nov 26 '23

CodiumAI: PR-agent Reimagined

#ai #productivity #tooling #opensource

13 min read

Marine for Taipy

Nov 13 '23

🙌Top 10 🐍 Python libraries for any ML projects 🚀

#machinelearning #python #opensource #datascience

4 min read

Nov 26 '23

How I Contributed One Line of Code to Ethereum

#opensource #ethereum #softwareengineering #beginners

6 min read

dhruv

Nov 26 '23

Little bit Git...

#git #github #opensource #devops

2 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Nov 26 '23

Contributing to ChatCraft

#opensource #react #frontend #webdev

6 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 for SWIRL

Nov 24 '23

Swirl Security Overview

#webdev #python #opensource #programming

5 min read

Nicolas Di Costanzo

Nov 26 '23

Looking for an open source project to contribute to

#opensource #webdev #career

1 min read

Nov 25 '23

How I build a YouTube Video Player with ReactJS: Building the Project Architecture

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

14 min read

Katie Liu

Nov 25 '23

Publishing my open source project to PyPI!

#python #pypi #opensource #pip

6 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 for SWIRL

Nov 22 '23

Swirl Search: Open Source Enterprise Search 🔍 to Securely 🔐 Search your Data.

#opensource #python #productivity #programming

2 min read

Ayu Adiati

Nov 21 '23

Building Your Brand as a Developer Through Open Source

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Nov 22 '23

💻 Web Development Resources #175

#webdev #resources #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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