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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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Michelle Duke for GitHub

May 17 '22

Top tips for being a good online community member

#opensource #tutorial #beginners #devops

4 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

May 17 '22

How does Apache ShardingSphere implement distributed transactions?

#apache #database #opensource #sql

8 min read

May 17 '22

Kubernetes volumes upside-down with Discoblocks

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Apr 14 '22

How to Add Walkie-Talkie Functionality into Your Android App

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #android

3 min read

May 15 '22

DevoxxUK - afterparty. The conference which changed EVERYTHING

#opensource #devoxxuk #community #conferences

4 min read

Simon Pfeiffer for Codesphere Inc.

May 16 '22

Getting started with Redis

#python #redis #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Victoria Ricarte Bispo Beserra

May 16 '22

Mojolicious

#perl #opensource #braziliandevs

2 min read

Kevin Wan

May 15 '22

Developing a RESTful API with Go

#go #webdev #programming #opensource

6 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

May 10 '22

How to Create a Great GitHub Sponsors Profile

#github #opensource #career #tutorial

8 min read

yemingfeng

May 16 '22

SDB ：Pure golang development, distributed, rich data structure, persistent, easy-to-use NoSQL database

#discuss #go #opensource #database

14 min read

Imam Ali Mustofa

May 16 '22

SleekwareDB - The Idea

#webdev #opensource #programming #php

2 min read

May 12 '22

Ecosystem and Frameworks: My Role at Netlify

#frontend #javascript #career #opensource

2 min read

shiahalan

May 16 '22

Project One (C++): Tic Tac Toe

#cpp #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

SeaQL

May 15 '22

What's new in SeaORM 0.8.0

#news #rust #githunt #opensource

4 min read

May 14 '22

PHP features you use for debugging purposes ?

#php #cmrphp #c4rl3 #opensource

1 min read

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