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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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Danglewood

May 12 '22

OpenBB is Setting the Standard for Customer Support and Service in the FOSS Community. We Named our new Feature, Support!

#showdev #opensource #python #help

3 min read

May 23 '22

SaaS Insight for Building a Real-time CRM Application

#saas #crm #github #opensource

2 min read

Mohamed Radwan for AWS Community Builders

May 21 '22

Create Instance Scheduler on Serverless by using Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Cognito,S3 and CloudFront

#serverless #lambda #aws #opensource

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 21 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #113

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Salih for Kodeas

May 22 '22

Dealing with currency in Laravel

#laravel #php #opensource

2 min read

May 23 '22

How To Fix ‘With 554 No SMTP’ When your Mails Get Reject By GMX or other Mail-Provider

#devops #opensource #tutorial #programming

1 min read

Anuvindh for AWS Community Builders

May 21 '22

Ansible For Everyone - Part 1

#devops #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Adheeban Manoharan

May 21 '22

Automate Repetitive (Boring) Tasks With Cron Jobs ⚙

#linux #tutorial #productivity #opensource

4 min read

gus

Apr 21 '22

Optimizing a Program Through SVE2 Auto-Vectorization

#opensource #assembly #sve2 #simd

3 min read

May 21 '22

First steps with Golang and WebAssembly

#go #programming #opensource #linux

5 min read

Dima Grossman for novu

May 11 '22

Our open-source project got funded!

#news #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Christy Jacob for Appwrite

May 20 '22

Cloud Functions Using the New Java Runtime

#java #opensource #serverless #cloud

7 min read

NIRANJAN LAMICHHANE

May 20 '22

Why I never returned back to windows after using linux ?

#linux #opensource

2 min read

Christy Jacob for Appwrite

May 20 '22

Cloud Functions Using the New Kotlin Runtime

#kotlin #opensource #serverless #cloud

6 min read

Aldrich Heinz Alvarez

May 20 '22

Why You Should Drop Shopify for Medusa, An Open Source Alternative

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

7 min read

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