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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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Aaron Schlesinger

May 29 '20

Storage with Dapr

#devops #tutorial #opensource #database

7 min read

May 29 '20

Web Friday: Hunt 1

#webdev #opensource #freebies #productivity

2 min read

Julien Landuré for Zenika

May 26 '20

Crafting the perfect container to play with a Headless Chrome

#opensource #docker #testing #javascript

3 min read

May 26 '20

How to choose and care for a secure open source project

#security #opensource #programming #devops

7 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

May 28 '20

Add Quizzes 📃 to your Static Site using this Open Source Web Component 😁😁

#showdev #webdev #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 27 '20

Setting up G-Suite, AWS SSO and ssosync

#aws #opensource #security

16 min read

Abhishek Gupta for Microsoft Azure

May 28 '20

How to auto-scale Kafka applications on Kubernetes with KEDA

#opensource #kubernetes #kafka #tutorial

9 min read

Raksha Kannusami

May 28 '20

How to get beginner friendly issues to contribute to open source on Github?

#github #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

May 24 '20

Flask Dashboard - Gradient Able Design

#flask #dashboard #opensource #appseed

4 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

May 28 '20

2020 Survey: Help us understand the impact of the recession on app development with open source (and other timely topics)

#opensource #devops #development #productivity

2 min read

dBooks

May 27 '20

The 10 Python open access books

#python #books #opensource

4 min read

May 27 '20

Hacking Unicode characters to hide secrets in strings

#javascript #opensource #programming #webdev

1 min read

May 23 '20

Monetizing Content in View, Paying for what you see

#gftwhackathon #webmonetization #opensource #meta

3 min read

May 25 '20

Video Web Component using Web Monetization API

#gftwhackathon #webmonetization #webdev #opensource

2 min read

May 21 '20

Monetize.js: Event-driven library to manage and simulate Web Monetization

#showdev #gftwhackathon #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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