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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.

submission guidelines

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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Danglewood

May 12 '22

OpenBB is pleased to announce the release of v1.3.0 which introduces new features and fixes! Available now to download!

#news #python #opensource #github

2 min read

Jun 1 '22

Create a Linux package browser in 5 minutes with Flutter 3

#flutter #linux #ubuntu #opensource

7 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

May 31 '22

How to Customize your Medusa Server and Next.js Storefront to Add Product Reviews

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

13 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jun 1 '22

Facts You Should know About Pyscript: A web Development Framework

#opensource #fossstories #internet

3 min read

Christina Gorton for Scarf

May 31 '22

A Different Approach to Measuring Open Source Community Health

#opensource

4 min read

Lyndsi Kay Williams

May 31 '22

Apache Superset: Testing and Enzyme to RTL conversion

#testing #react #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Nicolas Frizzarin for Playful Programming Angular

May 31 '22

Angular 14: Typer ses formulaires n'est plus un rêve (part 2)

#angular #typescript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Max Kray for Quickwit

Jun 1 '22

Quickwit 0.3 is released! An Open-Source Log Management alternative to Elasticsearch

#showdev #opensource #rust #news

4 min read

Raj Shah

May 30 '22

RubyBook - a VSCode extension that provides a notebook interface for Ruby code

#ruby #vscode #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Abhinav Dubey for Devtron

May 30 '22

Unleash the blogger in you!

#writing #productivity #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

Michael Fomenko

May 18 '22

Check out Spring Undo ↩️ v0.0.1!

#java #opensource #github

2 min read

DMetaSoul

May 29 '22

Solved a practical business problem when using Hudi: LakeSoul supports null field non-override semanticssemantics

#opensource #database #dataengineering #bigdata

3 min read

Johan Eliasson for Nhost

May 29 '22

Hasura Storage in Go: 5x performance increase and 40% less RAM

#node #go #opensource #hasura

5 min read

May 27 '22

Can anyone suggest some interesting backend projects ??

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

May 16 '22

What Tool Do You Wish Was Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #watercooler #programming

1 min read

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