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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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Mar 12 '22

File Compresser 2.0.0 is here

#php #programming #opensource #github

3 min read

Jay Gohil

Mar 12 '22

Best Discord Dev Communities to Join.

#opensource #webdev #discord #devjournal

2 min read

Christy Jacob for Appwrite

Mar 11 '22

Deploying Functions Just Got Easier with Appwrite CLI 2.0!

#opensource #javascript #tutorial #programming

5 min read

Mar 11 '22

Introducing Golang Masking Tool To Mask Away your sensitive information

#go #secret #pii #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 11 '22

Contributing to the Apache Airflow project - part two

#opensource

10 min read

Mar 11 '22

Finding Joy While Losing Use of My Hands

#a11y #opensource #productivity #talonvoice

4 min read

Adrien de Peretti

Mar 11 '22

Medusa-extender CLI

#javascript #node #opensource #medusa

2 min read

Mar 11 '22

Twitch für Coding

#livecoding #opensource #javascript #python

4 min read

Robrecht Meersman for In The Pocket

Mar 10 '22

Dynamic Open Graph images with Next.js

#nextjs #webdev #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Mar 11 '22

Day 7 on Redesigning Nasa's Picture of the Day webpage

#react #opensource #typescript #api

3 min read

Kubecost

Feb 18 '22

Announcing Our $25 Million Series A from Coatue to Grow Developer-Centric Community Around Kubernetes Cost Management

#news #devops #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

Alessandro Gaggia for AWS Community Builders

Mar 10 '22

10 best practices to secure your AWS environment

#aws #iam #security #opensource

6 min read

Dhravya

Mar 6 '22

Create README files for your project in 30 seconds ⚡

#showdev #productivity #opensource #rust

1 min read

Mar 10 '22

Open-sourcing Dyte Docs

#opensource #react #javascript #css

5 min read

Mar 10 '22

How to get started with Open-Source

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #webdev

5 min read

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