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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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 26 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.41

#opensource #aws

16 min read

Johannes Millan

Oct 26 '20

Super Productivity v6 is out!

#productivity #opensource

1 min read

Nicolas Hourcard for QuestDB

Oct 26 '20

QuestDB announces Grafana support

#database #opensource #devops #sql

1 min read

Oct 26 '20

MYSQL Workbench, Step by Step Installation MacOs

#mysqlworkench #beginners #opensource #database

2 min read

Oct 26 '20

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Graduated Projects

#devops #kubernetes #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Nov 25 '20

How to Restart All Pods in a Kubernetes Namespace

#engineeringpractices #languages #opensource #kubernetes

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Oct 24 '20

Free Tailwind CSS Themes and Templates

#tailwindcss #css #opensource

5 min read

Christina Gorton

Oct 23 '20

Week 4: Forem Hacktoberfest Twitch Events Recap

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

2 min read

Oct 25 '20

Hacktoberfest and Me.

#hacktoberfest #javascript #opensource #github

1 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 21 '20

To be successful as a developer, you need be consistent

#opensource #github #vue

4 min read

Oct 21 '20

Working in Public: how can we solve the problems of open source?

#books #opensource

5 min read

Oct 24 '20

Hacktoberfest2020 🎉✨wrapup and few key🔑 points🎯 to note

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #computerscience

2 min read

Johannes Lichtenberger

Oct 13 '20

Contributors wanted: Practice your Svelte and TypeScript skills 👩‍💻👨‍💻

#contributorswanted #opensource #webdev #svelte

2 min read

Oct 24 '20

📬 Apache Kafka Commands

#kafka #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Oct 24 '20

The Open Core Business Model

#opensource #business #opencore

2 min read

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