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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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Oct 20 '22

Dynamic OG image with SvelteKit and Satori

#opensource #svelte #sveltekit #javascript

5 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 19 '22

Django & Stripe - Open-Source Mini eCommerce

#webdev #django #ecommerce #opensource

2 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Oct 20 '22

On persistence, collaboration, trial and error - Hacktoberfest 2022 🚀🌟🔧

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #javascript

6 min read

Berezhnev Vladimir

Oct 20 '22

Emacs as RSS reader.

#emacs #rss #productivity #opensource

2 min read

boroskoyo

Oct 20 '22

Bringing the simplicity of print() to production debugging using PyCharm

#python #debug #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Oct 18 '22

How to Build a Rust CLI Tool to Generate Typescript Types from Rust

#rust #typescript #tutorial #opensource

19 min read

Oct 19 '22

Prometheus - getting started guide

#beginners #devops #monitoring #opensource

8 min read

Jonathan Reimer for crowd.dev

Oct 19 '22

Why traditional marketing fails for developers and what to do about it

#developermarketing #communitybuilding #opensource

5 min read

Víctor Hernando for Sysdig

Oct 19 '22

How to monitor Istio, the Kubernetes service mesh

#kubernetes #monitoring #opensource

10 min read

Brian Graf for AWS

Oct 18 '22

Ditch Google Analytics for Plausible Analytics on Amazon Lightsail

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #startup

4 min read

Mike Bifulco for 4thzoa

Oct 18 '22

Sky Cart: An Open Source, cloud-agnostic shopping cart using Stripe Checkout

#showdev #opensource #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Oct 16 '22

Things I Learned Through My First Hacktoberfest Pull Requests!

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #python

5 min read

Oct 17 '22

How to choose the right NPM package in 4 steps 📦

#npm #productivity #opensource

2 min read

marketachalupnikova

Oct 7 '22

6 Ways How to Contribute to Open-Source (and to Tolgee)

#opensource #hacktoberfest #localization #contributorswanted

4 min read

Oct 18 '22

Ecommerce Website Breakdown: Using Medusa as a Case Study

#medusa #ecommerce #opensource

5 min read

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