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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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Leonardo Montini

Jul 26 '22

How Open Source can change your life!

#discuss #opensource #career #github

3 min read

Jakub Andrzejewski

Jul 25 '22

Why good documentation matters for Developers?

#programming #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jul 27 '22

5 Top Open-source features and API for embedded systems and edge

#opensource #microservices #api #luos

1 min read

Francisco Cordero for JSConf Chile

Jul 27 '22

Por qué y cómo postular a la JSConf Chile

#javascript #community #spanish #opensource

3 min read

Unicorn Developer

Jul 27 '22

Any bugs in your IDE? Checking AvalonStudio with PVS-Studio

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #testing

8 min read

Michael Guarino

Jul 26 '22

The Future of DevOps is Open-Source

#discuss #opensource #devops #kubernetes

6 min read

Jul 26 '22

How To Become an Open Source Contributor

#programming #opensource #webdev #beginners

5 min read

Shuaib Yusuf Shuaib

Jul 26 '22

BoidCMS – Flat file CMS for building simple websites and blogs.

#showdev #opensource #php #webdev

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jul 26 '22

2000 members on Discord

#opensource #microservices #embedded #luos

1 min read

Victor Sam

Jul 25 '22

Creating an Ecommerce App with Flutter and Medusa

#flutter #opensource #mobile #beginners

16 min read

Arman for Appwrite

Jul 25 '22

Appwrite Loves Open Source: Why I Chose to Support Flow-Launcher

#opensource #appwrite

2 min read

Bobur Umurzokov for Apache APISIX

Jul 25 '22

API Gateway Caching for ASP.NET Core WEB API

#dotnet #api #cache #opensource

7 min read

Darko Mesaroš ⛅️ for AWS

Jul 25 '22

Build on AWS Weekly - S1 E1 - Open with Open Source

#aws #twitch #cloud #opensource

3 min read

Eduardo Blancas

Jul 26 '22

Three Tools for Executing Jupyter Notebooks

#python #opensource #github #datascience

4 min read

Nevo David for novu

Jul 25 '22

Create a notifications system using in-app (bell icon) and emails

#javascript #programming #node #opensource

11 min read

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