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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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Apache ShardingSphere

Mar 28 '22

Your Detailed Guide to Apache ShardingSphere's Operating Modes

#opensource #database #tutorial #distributedsystems

5 min read

adriens for opt-nc

Mar 27 '22

Running Tanzu unmanaged cluster on (very) low resources

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #docker

1 min read

Acid Coder

Mar 27 '22

Introducing FirelordJS, Extremely High Precision Typescript Wrapper for Firestore Web V9

#firebase #typescript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Alex

Mar 27 '22

Creating a forum with React and Appwrite – Part 1

#javascript #opensource #appwrite #webdev

4 min read

Danglewood

Mar 27 '22

#FOSS In Python: Using The OpenBB Terminal To Automate Processes & Research Tasks In Finance

#showdev #opensource #python #productivity

3 min read

Edi🦕

Mar 27 '22

Outreachy ended and here is my experience in Apache Airflow Open Source

#outreachy #apacheairflow #opensource

4 min read

My SunShares Portal ☀️⚡

Mar 27 '22

My SSH Portal WhitePaper

#blockchain #web3 #opensource

1 min read

Mar 27 '22

Tiredness in Coding

#webdev #productivity #opensource #codenewbie

3 min read

Mar 26 '22

The 3 Plugins You'll Ever Need For Your Terminal

#productivity #programming #tooling #opensource

2 min read

Mostafa Ahangarha

Mar 26 '22

Dev.to misses Open Source definition

#opensource

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 25 '22

Building a Tailwind CSS Avatar component with Flowbite

#tailwindcss #opensource #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 25 '22

Vite Soft UI Dashboard - Free Vue3 Template

#vue3 #vite #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 23 '22

Flask Templates - Free and Open-Source Starters

#flask #flasktemplates #opensource

2 min read

DMetaSoul

Mar 25 '22

Quick use of CDC: A new demo from lakesoul makes it easier to set up the environment

#opensource #dataengineering #bigdata #spark

5 min read

Mar 25 '22

Advanced Promise: JS Promises on next level

#javascript #opensource #webdev #npm

1 min read

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