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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.

submission guidelines

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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Syamkumar

Jul 29 '20

Setup an OpenLDAP Server in Centos

#centos #linux #openldap #opensource

4 min read

Abby

Jul 29 '20

Embedded AI Learning Diary1: How to Deploy the AI Model on the Embedded Platform?

#opensource #ai

5 min read

Raphaël Pinson for Camptocamp Infrastructure Solutions

Jul 28 '20

Simple secret sharing with gopass and summon

#showdev #security #devops #opensource

5 min read

Tristan Pollock

Jul 28 '20

Who do you look up to in tech?

#showdev #devops #opensource #devrel

1 min read

Jul 23 '20

Vanilla JavaScript emoji picker! New and improved.

#javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Haakon Helmen Rusås

Jul 28 '20

Committing to Github

#opensource #github #git

3 min read

Jul 28 '20

GraphAV - A graph algorithms visualizer built using React and Typescript

#react #typescript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Kyle Harrison for Cloudsmith

Jul 28 '20

A month-long celebration to open source projects: coming soon!

#cloudsmith #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Jul 27 '20

My First Open Source Contribution

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Jeremy Katz for Tidelift

Jul 23 '20

How Google manages open source

#google #opensource #monorepo #devops

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 27 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 30

#aws #opensource

22 min read

Jul 28 '20

Announcement: I am now the lead for the NUnit docs project!

#nunit #documentation #opensource #dotnet

3 min read

Jul 23 '20

💻 Software Versioning: What Numbers Say

#discuss #opensource #security #devops

2 min read

Hritwik Tripathi

Jul 22 '20

GitHub vs GitLab

#github #gitlab #git #opensource

6 min read

donnie-jp

Jul 26 '20

Secure (xc)config for iOS apps

#ios #security #opensource #mobile

4 min read

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