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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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Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Aug 29 '22

What is a repository that you think every developer should know about?

#discuss #opensource #programming #github

1 min read

Necati Özmen for Refine

Aug 28 '22

Variadic Currying in JavaScript

#javascript #programming #webdev #opensource

7 min read

Adriana Villela for Lightstep

Aug 29 '22

Observability Mythbusters: How hard is it to get started with OpenTelemetry?

#opentelemetry #opensource #observability #tutorial

8 min read

MD Sarfaraj for Playful Programming

Aug 29 '22

An admin panel for your Laravel application.

#laravel #php #webdev #opensource

2 min read

SeaQL

Aug 29 '22

Celebrating 3,000+ GitHub Stars 🎉

#rust #opensource #githunt #github

3 min read

Eduardo Blancas

Aug 8 '22

Analyze and plot 5.5M records in 20s with BigQuery and Ploomber

#database #datascience #opensource #cloud

7 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Aug 23 '22

How to find 🔎 an Open Source project to contribute to

#opensource #beginners #programming #tutorial

4 min read

Aug 22 '22

A Practical Guide to Brain.js

#javascript #opensource #webcomponents

3 min read

Aug 27 '22

My Contribution to a Popular Open-Source Package Caused a Panic in Golang Projects

#webdev #opensource #programming #github

5 min read

MakendranG

Aug 27 '22

Why developers prefer to build on open source platforms?

#beginners #opensource #devjournal #devops

6 min read

Navendu Pottekkat for Apache APISIX

Aug 26 '22

Best Practices for Building Reliable APIs

#api #devops #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Erin Bensinger for The DEV Team

Aug 26 '22

Follow Friday: Open Source Edition (26 August 2022)

#meta #writing #opensource

1 min read

Silvia O'Dwyer for Medusa

Aug 25 '22

How I Created an Ecommerce App with Medusa and Ionic

#ionic #opensource #javascript #programming

9 min read

Aug 26 '22

Introducing Skeleton: A fully featured Svelte component library.

#svelte #tailwindcss #webdev #opensource

10 min read

Aug 26 '22

Vector Databases for Data-Centric AI (Part 2)

#programming #nlp #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

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