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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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Sm0ke

Mar 23 '22

Flask Templates - Free and Open-Source Starters

#flask #flasktemplates #opensource

2 min read

DMetaSoul

Mar 25 '22

Quick use of CDC: A new demo from lakesoul makes it easier to set up the environment

#opensource #dataengineering #bigdata #spark

5 min read

Mar 25 '22

Advanced Promise: JS Promises on next level

#javascript #opensource #webdev #npm

1 min read

Ushakov Michael

Mar 25 '22

No more troubles with CORS using Gorilla/Mux and Go

#webdev #go #opensource #programming

4 min read

Oliver for TerminusDB Community

Mar 25 '22

8 reasons to version control your database

#database #productivity #opensource #management

6 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Mar 24 '22

The Story Behind Our Open Source Ecommerce Platform with +9,000 GH stars in 6 months

#news #javascript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

Mar 21 '22

Becoming a Better Developer Through Open Source

#opensource #beginners #career #programming

6 min read

Mar 23 '22

How to write a good README for your project

#opensource #writing #github

4 min read

Mar 24 '22

Introduction to Linux for Developers

#linux #opensource

6 min read

Mar 24 '22

Create licenses for your projects right from the terminal! 🚀

#showdev #rust #opensource #cli

1 min read

DMetaSoul

Mar 24 '22

4 best opensource projects about big data you should try out

#opensource #dataengineering #bigdata #spark

3 min read

Mar 24 '22

Adding an Animated Dark Theme Toggle to your website

#react #html #dark #opensource

2 min read

Matt Lewis for AWS Heroes

Mar 23 '22

Setting up a multi-account AWS environment

#aws #security #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Mar 24 '22

Summer of Bitcoin'21 Experience

#blockchain #rust #bitcoin #opensource

1 min read

Mar 23 '22

How to Implement JWT Auth in Laravel 9

#php #laravel #jwt #opensource

7 min read

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