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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.

submission guidelines

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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Dec 28 '21

How-to share geospatial data on the web

#mongodb #docker #opensource #geospatial

1 min read

Shai Almog

Dec 28 '21

60x Performance Improvement & Moving on fullstack - Building DDTJ Day 7

#startup #java #opensource #performance

5 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 27 '21

Bootstrap 5 - Open-source Flask Templates

#flask #bootstrap5 #opensource

3 min read

Shai Almog

Dec 27 '21

Good News and Bad News, Pivot and Turn - Building DDTJ Day 6

#startup #programming #architecture #opensource

4 min read

Dec 27 '21

K3d for Local Kubernetes Development

#devops #kubernetes #opensource #beginners

8 min read

Dec 27 '21

Digital Ocean Kubernetes Challenge - 2021 -Deploying an internal Container registry.

#kubernetes #cloud #digitalocean #opensource

8 min read

Dec 25 '21

Ruby 3.1.0 Released

#news #ruby #rails #opensource

1 min read

Astrodevil

Dec 27 '21

All Resources To Help You Start Your Open-Source Journey: Open Source Gallery

#opensource #tutorial #github #beginners

2 min read

nczapracka for Scramjet

Dec 16 '21

Does your company offer Fruity Thursdays?

#opensource #stream #tutorial #github

2 min read

Sall

Dec 26 '21

Zsh Plugins Commit TOP

#news #github #productivity #opensource

21 min read

Dec 26 '21

A Text to Speech Converter for busy bodies

#python #opensource #programming

1 min read

Shivansh Sharma for IEEE Computer Society, VIT Chennai

Dec 25 '21

Understanding and Exploiting Log4J Vulnerability

#security #java #opensource

5 min read

Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Dec 17 '21

Congrats to our 2021 GitHub Actions Hackathon Winners!

#showdev #actionshackathon21 #opensource

2 min read

Dec 24 '21

Aspiring 16 year old quant developer contributing to Open Source Application

#opensource #discord

4 min read

Shai Almog

Dec 23 '21

End to end Debug Object Modeling. First hard problem in Building DDTJ - Day 4

#startup #opensource #java #programming

5 min read

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