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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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May 24 '23

Building the Quote Generator Web App with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

#webdev #beginners #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

May 24 '23

Exploring Longhorn: A Game-Changer for Kubernetes Storage

#kubernetes #opensource #longhorn #cloudnative

8 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

May 16 '23

How to build an application shell layout for Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #flowbite #opensource #webdev

39 min read

Phil Nash

May 23 '23

Building Bluesky bots with GitHub Actions

#showdev #githubhack23 #github #opensource

3 min read

May 23 '23

The risk of using Open Source libraries - do you have the source code?

#discuss #opensource #programming #devops

1 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 23 '23

What is the wrapper in the Asp.net Core web API?

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

2 min read

May 23 '23

Getting Started with SuperAGI: Framework for building useful Autonomous AI Agents

#ai #opensource #python #autogpt

2 min read

Delavalom

May 23 '23

#Githubhack23 - Monoripify, a CI CD web app

#githubhack23 #codenewbie #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Gianluca

May 23 '23

Simplify Kubernetes Resource Management with Sveltos, Carvel ytt and Flux

#showdev #kubernetes #flux #opensource

4 min read

Adnan Rahić for Kubeshop

May 23 '23

Honeycomb + Tracetest: Observability-driven Development

#devops #opensource #tutorial #testing

7 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 22 '23

What happens after you submit a PR to an Open Source Project?

#opensource #webdev #github #codenewbie

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 22 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #157

#opensource #aws

19 min read

May 23 '23

Authorize NodeJS APIs using Authorizer

#opensource #javascript #auth #node

4 min read

May 12 '23

Medusa (4/4): An In-depth Look at Their Admin

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 15 '23

Choose Your Own Adventure in Open Source: Paths to Success

#opensource #webdev #github #codenewbie

5 min read

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