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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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Jan 29 '22

What makes a "good first issue"?

#opensource #beginners #programming #leadership

3 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 28 '22

Flask React Soft Dashboard - Free Project

#webdev #react #flask #opensource

3 min read

Sean

Jan 29 '22

Have been building an open source accounting system with features for programmers.

#showdev #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 27 '22

Argon Dashboard - Free Bootstrap 5 Template

#webdev #bootstrap5 #opensource

2 min read

Jan 28 '22

namespace ra :: RSA Cryptography

#showdev #cpp #opensource #crypto

2 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 27 '22

Dashboard Volt - Free Django 4 Template

#django #opensource #dashboards #webdev

3 min read

Hollow Man

Jan 27 '22

Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster based on Calico and openSUSE Kubic

#kubernetes #linux #cloud #opensource

4 min read

Jan 27 '22

Introduction to OpenSearch

#opensource #opensearch #elasticsearch #database

4 min read

Jan 27 '22

Gitpodify the MetaCall

#gitpod #opensource #metacall

3 min read

Jan 26 '22

Release 1.9.11 of Perl distribution Crypt::OpenSSL::X509, followed by 1.9.12

#perl #release #opensource

2 min read

Jan 26 '22

Release 0.8.0 of cheatset, Docker edition

#docker #opensource #cheatset #release

3 min read

Juri Strumpflohner for Nrwl

Jan 26 '22

Monorepos Explained

#nx #monorepo #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Sabine Schaller for Coil

Jan 26 '22

Interledger 2022 - The Year of Rafiki

#interledger #rafiki #openpayments #opensource

5 min read

Jan 26 '22

Release 0.21.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - a maintenance release and an architectural challenge

#opensource #release #githubaction

2 min read

Quadri Sheriff for Medusa

Jan 25 '22

Medusa: Node.js ecommerce platform for 11ty

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

15 min read

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