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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 29 '22

Begin your opensource journey

#github #opensource

3 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

May 30 '22

Hot plug

#opensource #microservices #systems #luos

1 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Jun 28 '22

Things to Keep in Mind When Choosing an OpenTelemetry Backend

#devops #microservices #monitoring #opensource

10 min read

Jun 28 '22

TipTap image resize extension

#react #opensource #npm

2 min read

May 26 '22

PHP COOKIE 🍪 PACKAGE

#php #opensource #c4rl3 #devjournal

1 min read

Carlos Padilla for Medusa

Jun 28 '22

Medusa + Nuxt.js + Stripe - How to Create a Nuxt.js Ecommerce Storefront from Scratch Using Medusa Part 3

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

25 min read

Abhinav Dubey for Devtron

Jun 28 '22

Deploying a custom Mongodb operator using Helm Charts

#kubernetes #helm #opensource #devops

2 min read

Royce

Jun 28 '22

A brief introduction to NestJS

#node #angular #typescript #opensource

5 min read

Archer Allstars

Jun 28 '22

Fedora 36 Review, a few issues that still need to be fixed

#opensource #beginners #productivity #linux

11 min read

Shamanth Shetty for Kern AI

Jun 28 '22

6 (+1) types of heuristics to automate your labeling process

#tutorial #datascience #python #opensource

6 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

Jun 28 '22

Cloud native deployment for a high-performance data gateway + new API driver: Apache ShardingSphere 5.1.2 is released

#opensource #cloud #api #database

9 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Jun 27 '22

What's Something New That You Learned in The Past Week?

#discuss #watercooler #programming #opensource

1 min read

Sennovate

Jun 28 '22

Steps to Build a Zero Trust Architecture for Educational Institutions

#help #opensource #architecture #security

6 min read

Jun 27 '22

t3 stack and my most popular open source project ever

#webdev #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Jun 27 '22

My Top 4 Open Source CRM. What are Yours?

#discuss #crm #opensource #yetiforce

2 min read

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