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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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Gregdevogo

Feb 14 '20

Autocorrect in Google, Amazon and Pinterest and how to write your own one

#webdev #opensource #tutorial #autocomplete

10 min read

Julien Simon for AWS

Feb 14 '20

Deploying Machine Learning Models with mlflow and Amazon SageMaker

#opensource #tutorial #machinelearning #aws

1 min read

Feb 13 '20

ING open sources Lion: A library of performant, accessible & flexible Web Components

#webcomponents #javascript #designsystem #opensource

8 min read

Nicolas Gimenez

Feb 14 '20

Towards a pragmatic approach to the spirit of Free Software

#opensource

8 min read

Nicolas Gimenez

Feb 14 '20

Getting rid of the confusion around Free Software, Open-Source and software licenses

#opensource

13 min read

Orestis Pantazos for Open DevOps

Feb 14 '20

☕ Getting Started with Spring Boot 2

#java #devops #opensource

1 min read

Roy Derks

Feb 11 '20

5 Examples of JavaScript GraphQL APIs to Learn From

#opensource #graphql #javascript

3 min read

Matt Eland

Jan 26 '20

How to Contribute to Open Source Software

#github #opensource #beginners #tutorial

10 min read

Freek Van der Herten

Feb 13 '20

Manage Docker containers using PHP

#docker #php #opensource

5 min read

Cristian

Feb 13 '20

SkyHole: Privacy In A Digital Age

#opensource #privacy #security #aws

5 min read

Feb 13 '20

How I Became Google Code-In 2019 Runner Up?

#opensource #programming #competition

4 min read

Welly

Feb 11 '20

✨ Introducing use-places-autocomplete: React hook for Google Maps Places Autocomplete

#react #hook #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Feb 12 '20

Being a Good Developer: Six Tips for a Painless Code Review

#opensource #git #programming #codequality

5 min read

Oleksandr Simonov for Amoniac OÜ

Feb 10 '20

What is Docker? Why is it important and necessary for developers? Part I

#docker #opensource #ruby #rails

9 min read

Abhishek Gupta for ITNEXT

Feb 12 '20

How to use Open Application Model to run applications on Kubernetes

#showdev #kubernetes #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

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