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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

May 9 '22

Experimenting with digital lanyards - introducing the Badger2040

#opensource #iot

5 min read

Ilias Gazdaliev

May 10 '22

Introducing ts-jackson, a typescript library to deserialize/serialize deeply nested json structures.

#typescript #javascript #json #opensource

1 min read

Eldad A. Fux for Appwrite

May 4 '22

Announcing the Appwrite OSS Fund

#news #opensource #appwrite #programming

3 min read

marplex

May 4 '22

Only one open-source project can be saved for future humanity. Which one would you choose?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Apr 25 '22

What’s the Most Recent Project You’ve Been Working On?

#discuss #watercooler #programming #opensource

1 min read

Sneh Chauhan for Kubernetes Community Days Chennai

May 5 '22

Revisiting the Pain: The World without Git

#beginners #webdev #opensource #github

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 6 '22

AWS open source news and updates #111

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Naman vyas

May 4 '22

ShowDEV - A open source job Board

#showdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Georgie

May 7 '22

Dev x Appwrite Hackathon: #4 Installing Appwrite on Digital Ocean

#react #appwritehack #opensource #javascript

4 min read

May 6 '22

Rethinking the “One Ring To Rule Them all” Monorepo manager

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Estee Tey

May 7 '22

How to create and test a GitHub Action that generates Supabase database types

#javascript #opensource #github #tutorial

8 min read

shiahalan

May 7 '22

Project Three (Python): Sudoku Solver

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Chris Cook

May 6 '22

Switch-cased Error Handling in JavaScript

#discuss #javascript #node #opensource

1 min read

emma-hq

May 6 '22

A 'grown up' job (and title)

#devrel #umbraco #leadership #opensource

3 min read

Danglewood

May 6 '22

OpenBB Is Pleased To Announce The Release Of OpenBB Terminal v 1.2! Now Better Than Ever!

#news #python #opensource #git

3 min read

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