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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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SeaQL

Feb 24 '22

Who's using SeaORM?

#showdev #rust #githunt #opensource

1 min read

Tracy Holmes for Codefresh

Feb 24 '22

Getting Started with GitOps and Argo CD

#tutorial #devops #opensource #gitops

11 min read

Feb 23 '22

Release 0.10.0 of cheatset, Docker edition

#opensource #release #docker #cheatset

3 min read

Paul C. Ishaili for Appheart Development Company

Feb 23 '22

Notes on 'Thinking fast and slow' by Dr. James Goldman.

#productivity #opensource #devjournal #writing

2 min read

Fatih Küçükkarakurt

Mar 6 '22

Lupine | I'm Developing a 3D Game Engine!

#opensource #gamedev #programming #cpp

3 min read

francisadp

Feb 23 '22

Base de données PostgreSQL 14 : Surveillance et Enregistrement

#percona #postgres #opensource #french

5 min read

Yosra for Medusa

Feb 22 '22

How to set up a one-page check-out flow in Next.js

#nextjs #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Elliot Lee for RippleX Developers

Feb 22 '22

Announcing the XRPL Grants Wave 2 Awards

#xrpl #xrplgrants #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

Feb 22 '22

namespace ra :: BlockChain as STL, Data Structure and Iterators

#showdev #cpp #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Mazahir

Feb 20 '22

I made a Next Js Project, Which helps you remember friends birthdays. 😁

#showdev #nextjs #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 21 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #101

#opensource #aws

12 min read

Sindhu

Feb 22 '22

Automatic ambient light controller

#showdev #raspberrypi #python #opensource

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 7 '22

Orchestrating hybrid workflows using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)

#opensource

43 min read

GAUTAM JHA

Feb 21 '22

WordPress is Underrated.

#wordpress #opensource #productivity #php

2 min read

Artem Zakharchenko

Feb 21 '22

Mock Service Worker adopts a brand-new request interception algorithm for Node.js.

#javascript #testing #api #opensource

8 min read

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