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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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 13 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 28

#aws #opensource

19 min read

Farrah for AWS Heroes

Jul 7 '20

How to design Serverless Apps like a Pro using Interactive Serverless Reference Architectures 🚀🔥

#aws #serverless #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Emanuele Bartolesi

Jul 13 '20

How to create an awesome GitHub profile README

#github #opensource

1 min read

Sean Chen

Jul 13 '20

Some Learnings from Implementing a Normalizing Rust Representer

#rust #exercism #opensource

8 min read

Natalie A. Wiser for New Relic

Jul 13 '20

Connecting to New Relic with Open-Source Software

#opensource #newrelic #opentelemetry #observability

3 min read

Rembrandt Reyes (He/Him)

Jul 14 '20

Working on the second contribution to Dev.to part 1

#ruby #opensource #testing

2 min read

Jul 13 '20

How I made $11,673 in 5 days with an open-source project

#laravel #saas #opensource #php

1 min read

0xkniraj

Jul 13 '20

GSoC 20: Week 6

#gsoc #opensource #python

2 min read

Prathamesh Sahasrabhojane ✔️

Jul 13 '20

Designing the itinerary of the Adventure.

#json #terasology #opensource

1 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Jul 11 '20

Best options to translate software

#help #opensource

1 min read

Jul 13 '20

How to add Kerberos Authentication to Your Site With Minimum Efforts

#go #kerberos #opensource #security

2 min read

Nicolas Fränkel

Jul 12 '20

On Open Source, licenses and changes

#opensource #license

6 min read

Jul 12 '20

Build Rating System for your react native app

#reactnative #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

Jul 11 '20

Quick, Shareable UIs for Machine Learning

#showdev #machinelearning #opensource #python

1 min read

Jul 11 '20

Review our open-source project: Continuous Machine Learning ⭐ CML ⭐

#opensource #machinelearning #datascience #githunt

2 min read

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