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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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Kathy Lam for Sentry

Apr 22 '21

Silencing Distractions with Review List and Automations

#webdev #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 21 '21

Automating your ELT Workflows with Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow - Part Two

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 21 '21

Automating your ELT Workflows with Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow - Part One

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Nirvik Agarwal for GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur

Apr 20 '21

How Open-Source changed the world: Cloud Computing

#cloud #opensource #linux #learning

3 min read

Apr 21 '21

Demystify Pointers in Go

#go #opensource #programming

3 min read

Apr 20 '21

New Bash Alias: Git Out

#showdev #git #bash #opensource

1 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Apr 20 '21

Building a Daily Standup Application in 30 Minutes

#opensource #javascript #firebase #lowcode

10 min read

Sm0ke

Apr 19 '21

Admin Dashboard With Database - Free Projects to start fast

#webdev #dashboards #opensource

4 min read

Topik

Apr 19 '21

The best GNOME shell extensions

#linux #gnome #opensource #customization

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 19 '21

AWS open source news and updates #64

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Katherine Peterson

Apr 19 '21

How to Contribute to Your First Open Source Project

#opensource #codenewbie #github #tutorial

3 min read

Juha-Matti Santala for Futurice

Apr 19 '21

How Spice Program supported my creation of 235

#opensource #rust #commandline

4 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Apr 19 '21

Let's Draw OpenCV Logo Using OpenCV

#computervision #python #opencv #opensource

6 min read

Apr 17 '21

Happy Birthday Linux!

#linux #opensource #cybersecurity #hacking

1 min read

Lucas Neves Pereira

Apr 16 '21

Gituser CLI - Switch between git accounts easily

#cli #go #git #opensource

3 min read

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