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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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Jun 20 '21

Version Control System For Beginners- Part I

#github #git #opensource

5 min read

Jun 19 '21

A quick guide on How to extend kubectl with plugins?

#kubernetes #devops #opensource

4 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Jun 17 '21

Looking Back on Our First DEV Community Bug Smash

#opensource #meta #devbugsmash

2 min read

The Apostrophe Team for Apostrophe

Jun 18 '21

The Official Release of Apostrophe 3.0

#webdev #opensource #node #mongodb

6 min read

Tulio Leao

Jun 17 '21

Como criar um perfil incrível no GitHub?

#github #markdown #opensource #git

6 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Jun 17 '21

Building an Internal Leave Management Dashboard using Google Sheets

#opensource #javascript #startup #googlecloud

10 min read

Jun 17 '21

Google Summer of Code: How to Ensure a Successful Community Bonding Period

#opensource #career #programming #webdev

4 min read

SiaSearch

May 14 '21

KITTI on SiaSearch - Our first public product unveil for researchers

#opensource #machinelearning #computerscience #datascience

3 min read

Prashant Ghildiyal

Jun 16 '21

Here's why you should use Kubernetes!

#kubernetes #beginners #devops #opensource

3 min read

Ben Greenberg for Orbit

Jun 16 '21

Making Our Open Source Communities More Like Starfish

#opensource

6 min read

Adrian Matei for Codever

Jun 16 '21

IntelliJ Plugin expansion - search my snippets from IDE

#productivity #programming #opensource #codever

2 min read

Ybrahin Martinez

Jun 16 '21

Post #1 : Everyone can be struggling with it

#weeklyretro #python #opensource #gsoc

3 min read

Rob Bell

May 13 '21

Adopting InnerSource at ASOS

#opensource #innersource #engineering

1 min read

Jun 15 '21

We Just Open Sourced our Tech!

#discuss #opensource #tooling #devops

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 14 '21

AWS open source news and updates #72

#opensource #aws

13 min read

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