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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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Alan Allard for Eyevinn Video Dev-Team Blog

Feb 24 '23

Exploring video generators in FFMPEG...

#discuss #opensource

13 min read

himanshuseth004 for TestMu AI

Feb 24 '23

MSTest Tutorial: Parameterized Tests For Selenium Testing

#ai #opensource #subtitles

11 min read

guoliwu

Feb 24 '23

How to Manage Jina Resources with Namespace

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

Maciej Swiderski

Feb 24 '23

Apache Camel or workflows or both?

#java #apachecamel #workflow #opensource

5 min read

Feb 23 '23

5 Great Custom Hooks For Your React Project

#discuss #go #opensource #backend

6 min read

Waji

Feb 23 '23

Exploring Linux Kernels

#codenewbie #opensource #fastapi #career

8 min read

Adnan Rahić for Kubeshop

Feb 23 '23

Top 8 Open-Source Observability & Testing Tools

#devops #testing #monitoring #opensource

8 min read

Feb 23 '23

Lightning-Fast Portfolio Site in Just 3 Hours

#javascript #opensource #portfolio #astro

1 min read

Fernando

Feb 23 '23

Algorithms and standard library modules in my Battlesnake

#crystal #programming #opensource

4 min read

Feb 23 '23

A Guide to the Temporal API in JavaScript

#discuss #opensource #documentation #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

Fernando

Feb 21 '23

Documenting a Crystal open source project

#crystal #githubactions #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

Feb 22 '23

From Court to Computer: Using Apache AGE to Dive into NBA Player Stats

#tutorial #opensource #postgres #database

5 min read

Rob OLeary

Feb 28 '23

The decline of CSS Tricks

#discuss #opensource

5 min read

Guillaume Mourier for Meilisearch

Feb 21 '23

Meilisearch 1.0: the next stage in search

#search #rust #opensource

7 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

Feb 21 '23

MTG Card Data Storage Made Easy: A Tutorial on Using Apache AGE

#tutorial #opensource #database #postgres

4 min read

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