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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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Karan Pratap Singh

Feb 3 '22

NATS with Kubernetes

#kubernetes #opensource

6 min read

Feb 3 '22

My FIRST OPEN SOURCE Contribution!! My First Attempt at Open-Source and First Blog

#opensource #firstpost

2 min read

Feb 1 '22

Top 7 LeetCode extensions

#productivity #programming #opensource #100daysofcode

4 min read

Michael Haberman for Aspecto

Feb 3 '22

OpenTelemetry and Istio: Everything you need to know

#webdev #microservices #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Minal Mehta for ToolJet

Feb 3 '22

How to build and maintain welcoming open source communities?

#opensource #javascript #beginners #react

5 min read

Feb 3 '22

Release 0.9.0 of cheatset, Docker edition

#opensource #release #docker #cheatset

1 min read

Feb 3 '22

We are more than 75,000 people (stars 🌟) — awesome-go

#opensource #go #github #programming

2 min read

Feb 2 '22

Release 1.58 of perl-workflow, a maintenance release

#opensource #release #perl

2 min read

Feb 2 '22

FREE React Chakra UI Dashboard (Open Source)

#opensource #react #css #productivity

1 min read

Alexey Dubovskoy

Feb 1 '22

How I almost automated grocery shopping

#showdev #programming #cooking #opensource

4 min read

Jan 30 '22

Git commands, you may not know.

#git #github #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 30 '22

Flask Social Authentication - Github & Twitter (With Sample)

#webdev #flask #opensource #authentication

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 31 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #98

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Atharva Shirdhankar

Jan 31 '22

Simple Rock Paper Scissors game build using JuliaLang

#julialang #beginners #opensource #learnings

3 min read

Jan 31 '22

From enterprise product, through open-core to OpenAPI validator: Our journey

#rust #opensource #api #startup

2 min read

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