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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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Raphaël Pinson for Camptocamp Infrastructure Solutions

Jun 2 '20

Getting Puppet Report Metrics from PuppetDB

#showdev #puppet #opensource #devops

2 min read

Aaron Schlesinger for Microsoft Azure

May 29 '20

Storing Data with Dapr

#devops #tutorial #opensource #database

7 min read

0xkniraj

Jun 1 '20

GSoC 20: Beginning of a new journey

#python #opensource #gsoc

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 1 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 22

#aws #opensource

14 min read

Trilochan Parida

Jun 1 '20

What is HTTP/3?

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #codenewbie

1 min read

May 31 '20

Making your terminal more productive with Tmux

#linux #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

May 19 '20

Calling the Class of 2020: Join DEV + GitHub for Graduation

#devgrad2020 #octograd2020 #meta #opensource

2 min read

Abdurrahman Fadhil

May 29 '20

I'm Building an ORM for Deno!

#javascript #typescript #deno #opensource

6 min read

C3Suryansu for Spectrum Club

May 29 '20

Evolution of NLP

#machinelearning #beginners #python #opensource

6 min read

icncsx

May 28 '20

OS / How I made my first PR to DEV as a code newbie

#opensource #codenewbie #tips #firstyearincode

3 min read

Martin Häusler

May 31 '20

Announcing the Chronos Project v1.0.0 Open-Source Release

#java #nosql #versioning #opensource

2 min read

vchaindz

May 31 '20

immudb is an open source, high-speed immutable database for systems and applications

#go #opensource #database #security

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi

May 29 '20

What makes you decide to follow someone on Github?

#github #opensource

1 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

May 30 '20

Add some flavour to your ls

#linux #bash #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

May 29 '20

Git | GitHub and Version Control

#github #git #opensource #beginners

4 min read

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