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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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Mar 21 '20

Try fair web analytics

#webanalytics #privacy #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Mar 21 '20

Automatizando documentação para projetos TypeScript com Github e Typedoc

#typescript #github #documentation #opensource

4 min read

manish srivastava

Mar 17 '20

GITHUB MOBILE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC!!! GET IT HERE...

#news #github #opensource #devops

1 min read

Mar 20 '20

One feature GitHub should have to implement🤔💭

#discuss #github #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mar 19 '20

5 DevOps tools to boost your open source project

#devops #opensource #development #codequality

3 min read

Beatriz Oliveira for WoMakersCode

Mar 19 '20

Introduçāo ao Rancher

#rancher #containers #opensource #docker

3 min read

Omar Gaston Chalas

Mar 19 '20

Do you want contributors for your Open Source Project?

#opensource

1 min read

Mar 19 '20

How On-demand Apps Can Be a Great Solution During The Coronavirus Outbreak?

#android #ios #opensource #ondemandapp

2 min read

Phil Nash

Mar 18 '20

The story of a mildly popular Ruby gem

#opensource #ruby #api #bitly

5 min read

Carolyn Stransky for Meeshkan

Mar 18 '20

Understanding telemetry features in open-source software

#opensource #ethics #data

4 min read

Avthar Sewrathan for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Mar 18 '20

Devopsdays NYC 2020 Demo, Open Space Recap & More

#devops #opensource #eventsinyourcity #learning

8 min read

Daiane Alves for LibreCode

Mar 18 '20

Vai trabalhar de casa? Veja ferramentas open source que podem auxiliar no home office.

#opensource #homeoffice

3 min read

Mar 18 '20

Kubernetes Storage Using Ceph

#kubernetes #ceph #devops #opensource

7 min read

Robin Moffatt for Confluent

Mar 18 '20

Streaming data from Kafka to S3 - video walkthrough

#tutorial #opensource #apachekafka #java

1 min read

Team RudderStack for RudderStack

Mar 18 '20

Redshift vs Snowflake vs BigQuery: Choosing a Warehouse

#database #opensource #go #rudderstack

10 min read

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