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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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Wadi for Amplication

Dec 20 '22

JWT Authentication - What Is It and How Do You Use It With Amplication?

#jwt #amplication #opensource #authentication

4 min read

Sam

Dec 17 '22

How to contribute to open-source with any skill level

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 18 '22

AWS open source newsletter, #139

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Safa Emhemed for Medusa

Dec 19 '22

The world’s best B2B ecommerce UX: Grainger (2/5)

#opensource #webdev #programming #ux

5 min read

dialchimp

Dec 19 '22

Amazing Telegram bots that will make your life easier!

#help #productivity #opensource #writing

4 min read

Dec 12 '22

Documentation 101: creating a good README for your software project

#documentation #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Pramit Marattha for Chaos Genius

Dec 19 '22

Unleash the Power of Chaos Genius to Reduce Data Warehouse Costs and Boost Data ROI

#cloud #datawarehouse #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Dec 19 '22

Explaining Pagination in ElasticSearch

#opensource

5 min read

Nerd Boy

Dec 18 '22

Queue Data Structure and Implementation in Python

#kubernetes #devops #opensource

5 min read

Dec 21 '22

6 things I do (and you should too) when I release open source code

#opensource

2 min read

Fabien Arcellier

Dec 17 '22

Test beyond your code with docker & pytest

#python #opensource #programming

4 min read

adriens

Dec 14 '22

⌛ Manage EoLs like a boss with endoflife.date 🛑

#showdev #security #api #opensource

3 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Dec 15 '22

9 UX Learnings From the World's Best Ecommerce Site

#ux #opensource #webdev #programming

8 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Dec 16 '22

Medusa 1.7.0: Performance Improvement, B2B Launch, and more!

#news #opensource #showdev #javascript

4 min read

Dec 15 '22

Master any CLI tool with this one weird trick

#opensource #programming #tutorial

3 min read

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