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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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Sidharth Mohanty

Apr 25 '22

My journey with open source and lessons learned

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

9 min read

Apr 26 '22

Fall in Love with TERMUX

#beginners #programming #opensource #android

2 min read

Shubhendra Singh Chauhan for ToolJet

Apr 26 '22

Building Recruitment Management App using Appwrite and ToolJet (Part 2)

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #beginners

8 min read

Apr 26 '22

Decrease your Organization's Carbon footprints using Kubernetes

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #productivity

6 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Apr 26 '22

Tailwind CSS input field examples from Flowbite

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial #webdev

7 min read

tarantool

Apr 25 '22

Alternative to MapReduce for search in distributed databases

#database #datascience #opensource #programming

7 min read

Sneh Chauhan for Kubernetes Community Days Chennai

Apr 23 '22

Demystifying Linux: The purpose of /bin, /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin

#linux #beginners #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Adela for Bytebase

Apr 26 '22

How to Contribute to Open Source Project - Your First GitHub PR

#github #opensource #bytebase

5 min read

Apr 26 '22

Develop a WYSIWYG drawing app with SwiftUI

#swift #swiftui #opensource #wysiwyg

7 min read

Anna for Cerbos

Apr 25 '22

Service-to-Service Authorization: Non-User Principles

#security #microservices #programming #opensource

8 min read

Sergey Vasiliev

Apr 25 '22

Why use static analysis? Exploring an error from Akka.NET

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #programming

3 min read

Biya Paul

Apr 25 '22

How to create an awesome Github Profile README ?

#github #opensource #tutorial #visibility

5 min read

Apr 25 '22

Executing your first C & Cpp program using WebAssembly

#discuss #tutorial #webassembly #opensource

3 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

Apr 25 '22

Apache ShardingSphere -Proxy Performance with PostgreSQL is Improved 26.8% with Version 5.1.0

#postgres #performance #opensource #devops

7 min read

Adheeban Manoharan

Apr 24 '22

Getting started with MongoDB 🌿

#database #opensource #beginners #tutorial

5 min read

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