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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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Christine Belzie

Feb 22 '23

How to Make Your Issues Requests Come True

#opensource #beginners #github #tutorials

4 min read

Jeffrey Boisvert

Feb 22 '23

Building an Arduino set up To Play Dino Run: A Fun and Engaging Way to Learn Electronics and Programming

#infosec #cybersecurity #hardware #opensource

4 min read

Luis Fernando De Pombo for IaSQL

Feb 22 '23

Infra as SQL is in beta

#devops #opensource #cloud #sql

4 min read

Eray Gündoğmuş

Feb 20 '23

How an Open-Source Disaster Map Helped Thousands of Earthquake Survivors: afetharita.com

#javascript #programming #opensource

21 min read

Feb 21 '23

ITKElastix 0.16.0 has been released!

#python #jupyter #opensource #datascience

2 min read

Ran Isenberg for AWS Community Builders

Feb 21 '23

Open-Source Code Donation 101

#opensource #career #github

4 min read

cychu42

Feb 10 '23

Starchart: Seeding

#webdev #opensource #prisma #typescript

2 min read

Memgraph for Memgraph

Feb 21 '23

Graph Use Cases in Chemical Industry

#cli #aws #opensource #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

moeed-k

Feb 20 '23

Set up Apache-AGE for development: Installing and Modifying the Source

#postgres #apacheage #opensource #linux

7 min read

Feb 21 '23

basename prop in Reactjs

#react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Feb 20 '23

useContext in React

#redis #systemdesign #opensource #ai

2 min read

Arjuna Sky Kok for Medusa

Mar 2 '23

How I Built an Android Ecommerce App with Medusa

#programming #opensource #android #tutorial

13 min read

Hung Vu

Feb 20 '23

🔒Improve Bitwarden Enterprise management with Google SSO

#tutorial #productivity #opensource #security

9 min read

Ana Boca

Feb 20 '23

Ana's Amateur Renaming of Angular Crap 'Cause How the Heck are We Supposed to Know What "HostListener" Means?

#angular #documentation #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Feb 20 '23

Release 0.30.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - a maintenance release

#release #opensource #githubaction

2 min read

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