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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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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

Jiahao

Apr 12 '21

Open-source Deep Dive: Broadway (Part 2) - Inner workings of Broadway

#elixir #dataprocessing #concurrency #opensource

14 min read

Apr 11 '21

Releases of Perl Distributions Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 and Crypt::OpenSSL::X509

#perl #release #opensource

2 min read

Sandra Ahlgrimm for Microsoft Azure

Apr 6 '21

Microsoft Java got released

#microsoft #java #opensource #openjdk

1 min read

Apr 11 '21

Release 1.53 of perl-workflow, a minor feature release

#release #opensource #perl

2 min read

open-trade

Apr 11 '21

I open source my remote desktop software: RustDesk

#showdev #programming #opensource #flutter

1 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Apr 10 '21

Avoid These Mistakes While Training Your AI

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

5 min read

Apr 10 '21

Human Murmuration

#opensource #microservices #javascript #nonsense

6 min read

Apr 9 '21

Open source MERN survey APP for you to Learn and contribute

#codenewbie #webdev #opensource #beginners

1 min read

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