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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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Supabase for Supabase

Dec 1 '20

Supabase: nine months of building.

#postgres #javascript #opensource #sql

2 min read

Jeffrey Boisvert

Dec 2 '20

My Experience Developing for a Non-Profit

#showdev #javascript #opensource #sideprojects

6 min read

Adi Polak for Microsoft Azure

Dec 1 '20

Apache Spark and OSS Data Adventures [Create: Data]

#showdev #opensource #news

1 min read

Nov 1 '20

Privatisation of YOUR android phone: De-Google

#android #opensource

16 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 30 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 46

#opensource #android

23 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

Nov 30 '20

The top programming languages organizations rely on are JavaScript, Python, and Java

#opensource #javascript #java #python

5 min read

Aaron Wolf

Nov 23 '20

11 Reasons I love Linux, and 1 why I don't

#linux #ubuntu #opensource #terminal

5 min read

Nov 29 '20

Prometheus architecture and use cases :

#prometheus #devops #monitoring #opensource

3 min read

Gourav

Nov 28 '20

I received first donation on my open-source side project and it felt great 😍

#showdev #opensource #vscode #typescript

1 min read

Jon Wood

Oct 30 '20

Participate in the 2020 Virtual ML.NET Hackathon

#dotnet #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Erika Heidi for DigitalOcean

Nov 25 '20

The State of Open Source: Currents 2020 Survey

#discuss #healthydebate #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Nov 24 '20

Prometheus Made Easy

#monitoring #devops #opensource #go

11 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 24 '20

Django Datatables - Pagination, Search and Inline edit via Ajax

#django #dashboards #opensource #appseed

2 min read

Nov 24 '20

Advantages of Using Fish Shell 🐟

#linux #bash #opensource

2 min read

bob.ts

Nov 25 '20

Making Regular Expressions Readable in JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #regex #opensource

2 min read

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