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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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Dec 17 '22

Ultimate Tools for Developers 🛠

#discuss #productivity #opensource #leadership

5 min read

Mikhail Zub for SerpApi

Jan 10 '23

Web scraping The Home Depot Search with Nodejs

#github #opensource #programming #webdev

10 min read

Dec 29 '22

My First Code Commit in Ruby

#ruby #opensource

6 min read

Ivan Yu

Dec 29 '22

Electron + Django ( Part 1 ), desktop app integrate JavaScript & Python

#github #opensource

7 min read

Morganna for Feministech

Dec 28 '22

Deixando seu 'Olá, mundo' com o Python

#discuss #opensource #tooling #webdev

5 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Dec 29 '22

Decrease the complexity of embedded systems development

#embedded #microservices #opensource #luos

1 min read

Dec 29 '22

Karpenter: Tool for Autoscaling Kubernetes Clusters

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

4 min read

Dec 29 '22

Release 0.29.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - a maintenance release

#release #opensource #githubaction

2 min read

Hartaj-Singh-Dev

Dec 29 '22

🔥 CORS explained: Error fixing on both client and server side

#javascript #webdev #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Dec 29 '22

Using NebulaGraph Importer to Import Data into NebulaGraph Database

#database #opensource #graphdatabase #sql

5 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

Dec 29 '22

Fuzzy query for CipherColumn | ShardingSphere 5.3.0 Deep Dive

#database #java #opensource #cloudnative

10 min read

Alejandro Velez for AWS Community Builders

Dec 28 '22

Documentation as Code- Reverse Diagram - Creating a diagram from AWS setup

#devops #devsecops #aws #opensource

3 min read

Christine Belzie

Jan 14 '23

From Lone Wolf to Pack Member: My Journey from Solo Coding to Collaboration

#motivation #codenewbie #opensource

5 min read

Vuvu Videos 🇿🇦

Dec 28 '22

Api call does not show in developer console (Chrome)

#react #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Dec 28 '22

Cyber-physical systems and microservices: benefits and challenges

#microservices #cyberphysicalsystems #opensource #luos

1 min read

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