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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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Jun 6 '20

What is Persistent Volume (PV) & Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) in Kubernetes?

#kubernetes #devops #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Jun 5 '20

Web Friday: Hunt 2

#webdev #opensource #freebies #productivity

2 min read

Snir David

Jun 4 '20

Pragmatic weekend project - apartments bot

#javascript #productivity #node #opensource

3 min read

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Jun 2 '20

How do you cover for domain name costs in FOSS projects?

#discuss #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 7 '20

Announcing the Grant For The Web Hackathon on DEV

#gftwhackathon #opensource #meta #webmonetization

6 min read

Gautham Prakash

Jun 3 '20

Dockerfile Templates For All Programming languages

#docker #linux #opensource #github

1 min read

vaibhav aggarwal

Jun 4 '20

Setting up Jenkins on AWS

#devops #aws #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 3 '20

Automating AWS SSO and G-Suite synchronisation with SSO Sync

#opensource #aws #security

5 min read

Orlando Monteverde

Jun 4 '20

API Rest con Go (Golang) y PostgreSQL Parte 4

#opensource #go #api

16 min read

Raj Sekhar

Jun 3 '20

Web Developer Resources At One Place

#webdev #javascript #ruby #opensource

1 min read

Chen Ravid

Jun 3 '20

Covid-19 Will Change Everything About Open Source

#opensource #devops #management #career

3 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

May 29 '20

Grant for the Web Hackathon deadline is one week away!

#gftwhackathon #meta #opensource #webmonitization

2 min read

Jun 3 '20

PhpUnitGen, testing, the new way!

#showdev #php #testing #opensource

1 min read

Johannes Lauinger

Jun 3 '20

SliceHeader Literals in Go create a GC Race and Flawed Escape-Analysis. Exploitation with unsafe.Pointer on Real-World Code

#go #security #opensource

18 min read

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

May 29 '20

Is open-sourcing server-side code a security threat?

#discuss #security #opensource

1 min read

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