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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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Apr 18 '22

Is Offshore Development Center (ODC) good for outsourcing?

#webdev #programming #career #opensource

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Vincent Ge for Appwrite

Apr 16 '22

Appwrite Community Report #2

#opensource #webdev #appwritehack #appwrite

3 min read

Dhanush N

Apr 17 '22

Javascript ML Libraries

#javascript #machinelearning #opensource #programming

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Adheeban Manoharan

Apr 17 '22

TMUX - multitasking with your command line 🐧

#beginners #productivity #opensource #linux

5 min read

Gerardo Enrique Arriaga Rendon

Mar 28 '22

Telescope 2.9

#telescope #osd700 #opensource

7 min read

Aiden Bai

Apr 17 '22

Turning MPA to SPA with Virtual DOM

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

1 min read

Bobur Umurzokov for Apache APISIX

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API Observability with Apache APISIX Plugins

#api #plugins #monitoring #opensource

7 min read

Muhammad Zein Ersyad

Apr 16 '22

My simple chat app with Flutter

#appwritehack #flutter #webdev #opensource

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MC Naveen

Apr 17 '22

Blazing fast comment system with Sveltejs and Supabase

#javascript #jamstack #opensource

1 min read

DMetaSoul

Apr 16 '22

Design concept of a best opensource project about big data and data lakehouse

#opensource #dataengineering #bigdata #datascience

9 min read

Abhay Prajapati

Apr 16 '22

How to make change to VSCode extension like this

#vscode #opensource #tutorial #beginners

1 min read

Erica V for Educative

Apr 15 '22

3 philosophies that influenced software development

#watercooler #opensource #writing #philosophy

4 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Apr 15 '22

Luos Web App: Alpha Version

#webdev #saas #opensource #luos

1 min read

Apr 15 '22

Git & GitHub - Best Version Control and Source Code hosting platforms respectively!

#github #git #opensource #versioncontrol

3 min read

Mar 16 '22

A volunteer project that will change the world

#programming #opensource

1 min read

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