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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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Release 0.8.0 of cheatset, Docker edition

#docker #opensource #cheatset #release

3 min read

Juri Strumpflohner for Nrwl

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Monorepos Explained

#nx #monorepo #devtools #opensource

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Sabine Schaller for Coil

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Interledger 2022 - The Year of Rafiki

#interledger #rafiki #openpayments #opensource

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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

Jan 24 '22

How to make a link preview 🤩

#news #opensource #webdev #link

3 min read

Budibase

Jan 25 '22

We're looking for freelance technical content writers - $400 per article

#writing #opensource #freelance

1 min read

Jan 25 '22

How to create the best GitHub Profile ReadMe ?

#github #design #programming #opensource

2 min read

Anshuman Bhardwaj

Jan 24 '22

Automatically Tweet popular articles from DEV

#showdev #opensource #nextjs #javascript

4 min read

devrsi0n

Jan 24 '22

Open sourcing a privacy-friendly and customizable Disqus alternate 🚀🔥

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

3 min read

Jan 28 '22

POD Design

#kubernetes #devops #docker #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 24 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #97

#opensource #aws

11 min read

Nomadev

Jan 20 '22

5 Underrated GitHub Features Every Developer Should Know

#python #javascript #opensource #github

3 min read

Mursal Furqan Kumbhar

Jan 22 '22

Git Commands Every Dev MUST know

#git #devops #opensource #programming

2 min read

𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶 🐬

Jan 21 '22

10 Commandments for Programmers

#javascript #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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