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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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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

May 30 '20

Add some flavour to your ls

#linux #bash #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

May 23 '20

An Open Source Maintainer's Guide to Publishing npm Packages

#npm #publishing #opensource #javascript

8 min read

May 29 '20

Git | GitHub and Version Control

#github #git #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

May 25 '20

Software Licensing: What is the Copyleft

#showdev #opensource #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Nicolas Hourcard

May 29 '20

How we made our SQL database QuestDB even faster and more accurate

#opensource #java #database #sql

1 min read

Roberto B.

May 30 '20

LaraLens a Laravel command for inspecting configuration

#laravel #package #php #opensource

2 min read

May 29 '20

Format of commit messages

#discuss #git #opensource

1 min read

May 30 '20

What is Deployment, Service, Secret and ConfigMap in Kubernetes?

#kubernetes #devops #beginners #opensource

2 min read

May 22 '20

Postwoman 👽 - An online, open source API request builder Alternative to Postman

#api #postman #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Deepanshu Udhwani

May 29 '20

OpenSource Internships/Fellowships

#help #opensource #github #internships

1 min read

May 25 '20

How to de-Google-ify your website

#webdev #privacy #opensource #javascript

9 min read

Aaron Schlesinger

May 29 '20

Storage with Dapr

#devops #tutorial #opensource #database

7 min read

May 29 '20

Web Friday: Hunt 1

#webdev #opensource #freebies #productivity

2 min read

Julien Landuré for Zenika

May 26 '20

Crafting the perfect container to play with a Headless Chrome

#opensource #docker #testing #javascript

3 min read

May 26 '20

How to choose and care for a secure open source project

#security #opensource #programming #devops

7 min read

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