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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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Siddharth Chandra

Apr 19 '21

Let's Draw OpenCV Logo Using OpenCV

#computervision #python #opencv #opensource

6 min read

🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Apr 22 '21

Postman alternative

#discuss #opensource #firebase #vscode

1 min read

Apr 17 '21

Happy Birthday Linux!

#linux #opensource #cybersecurity #hacking

1 min read

Lucas Neves Pereira

Apr 16 '21

Gituser CLI - Switch between git accounts easily

#cli #go #git #opensource

3 min read

maarteNNNN

Apr 15 '21

SocketCluster. The most underrated framework. Part 3: A Pub/Sub example and middleware

#socketcluster #opensource #node #javascript

4 min read

Apr 15 '21

Talk Notes: 'The Rising Storm of Ethics in Open Source' (RailsConf 2021)

#techtalks #opensource

4 min read

Jentan Bernardus

Apr 16 '21

The open source Calendly alternative is here

#opensource

1 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Apr 14 '21

Product Led Growth and the Role of Engineering

#startup #engineering #growth #opensource

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 12 '21

AWS open source news and updates #63

#opensource #aws

18 min read

Danyson

Apr 12 '21

How to install Github Desktop for Ubuntu & Debian?

#github #ubuntu #opensource #linux

1 min read

Carlota Soto for CrateDB

Apr 12 '21

Monitoring your database with Prometheus and Grafana

#opensource #monitoring #database

6 min read

devin ivy for hapi pal

Apr 12 '21

🎂 hapi pal v3: Birthday Edition

#news #node #opensource #webdev

11 min read

Apr 12 '21

PyLadies is 10 years!

#python #datascience #womenintech #opensource

1 min read

Jiahao

Apr 12 '21

Open-source Deep Dive: Broadway (Part 1) - Message queues, concurrency in Elixir, and Broadway architecture

#elixir #dataprocessing #concurrency #opensource

9 min read

Gilles Heinesch

Apr 11 '21

Add Your Open-Source Discord Bot To This List!

#contributorswanted #opensource #discord #beginners

1 min read

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