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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.

submission guidelines

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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Daniel Parmenvik

Nov 17 '21

How to avoid Software Supply Chain Attacks

#supplychain #opensource #security #devops

4 min read

Adnan Rahić for Cube

Nov 16 '21

Building an internal dashboard with Retool and Cube

#webdev #tutorial #analytics #opensource

11 min read

Nov 16 '21

Shortest way to find a buggy commit with Git

#git #github #opensource #algorithms

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 15 '21

AWS open source news and updates #90

#opensource #aws

11 min read

Nov 16 '21

Starting small Airbyte on GCP

#opensource #devops #etl

5 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Nov 16 '21

Luos is searching for its Community Lead 🧐

#community #hiring #opensource #luos

1 min read

Shodipo Ayomide

Nov 15 '21

My Next Adventure

#engineering #community #leadership #opensource

1 min read

Matt Angelosanto for LogRocket

Nov 15 '21

Introduction to SolidJS

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Nov 2 '21

Get started with Medusa: the open-source Shopify alternative

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tutorial

10 min read

Jan Cizmar for Tolgee

Nov 15 '21

Localize (i18n) your Svelte App with Tolgee. You will save a lot of time.

#svelte #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Nov 15 '21

Headless CMS using Github Issues and Github Actions

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

1 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

Nov 15 '21

Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0 New Features: Middleware to Ecosystem Evolution

#dbms #shardingsphere #java #opensource

4 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Nov 8 '21

GitHub Actions Hackathon 2021 Help Thread

#help #actionshackathon #githubactions #opensource

1 min read

Minsu Kim

Nov 4 '21

Formatter & Linter for C#

#opensource

3 min read

Zelcion The Dev

Nov 1 '21

How a single JSON file could become your entire code base

#javascript #node #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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