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Open Source

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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Javascript Chart Library - Open-source Projects

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#typescript #opensource #nextjs #react

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Mar 23

Farewell to our Enterprise License

#database #opensource #sql

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John Lafleur for Airbyte

Mar 3

How To Build a Slack Activity Dashboard With Open Source

#opensource #analytics

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Mar 22

Porting a board game to the web

#vue #javascript #rails #opensource

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Mar 22

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#dotnet #opensource #csharp #nuget

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Feb 23

Switching to Arch Linux

#linux #opensource #productivity

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Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Mar 22

Help Wanted: Do you have a Chromebook and want to contribute to DEV?

#help #opensource #a11y #frontend

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Mar 22

AWS open source news and updates #61

#opensource #aws

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Mar 11

Inspiring the community through lazyness

#watercooler #opensource

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Eduardo Ribeiro

Mar 22

How to Start Contributing to Open Source Projects

#github #opensource #beginners #codenewbie

12 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Mar 21

Python Asterisks

#python #programming #codenewbie #opensource

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 21

Show dev: free Django dashboard admin template

#showdev #opensource #django #bootstrap

3 min read

kodumbeats for Appwrite

Mar 10

Appwrite Releases Open Source Documentation

#webdev #opensource #docs

2 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Mar 20

Let's Talk Python - Some of the Unknown 👤

#python #github #opensource #development

5 min read

Richard Rodrigues

Feb 19

Guía para Contribuir en Open Source - (GitHub for Dummies)

#spanish #opensource #github #tutorial

3 min read

Kaiwalya Koparkar

Mar 20

📝Steps to take before starting a new Open-source project.📝

#todayilearned #opensource #tutorial #discuss

2 min read

Javid Mougamadou

Mar 20

Photologue : Nice Image Management for Django with DRF Integration

#django #python #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Mar 20

Realtime secure chat in 2021

#opensource #react #javascript #typescript

1 min read

Suraj Vishwakarma

Mar 19

How to contribute to forem(DEV on GitHub)?

#rails #opensource #ruby #javascript

3 min read

Feb 18

Release 1.52 of perl-workflow

#perl #opensource #release

3 min read

Mar 19

Great Open Source Alternatives for paid products.

#opensource #linux #gamedev #productivity

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Sergey Nikolaev

Mar 19

Manticore Search: 3 years after forking from Sphinx

#elasticsearch #opensource #nlp #database

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Shanika Wickramasinghe for Fabric

Mar 19

The Best Open Source Headless CMS Software

#opensource #webdev #frontend

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Thomas Hareau for Doctolib Engineering

Mar 18

How to release a new gem version

#ruby #opensource #github #tutorial

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Mar 9

21 Vue.js Example Projects to Learn From (Open-source, Beginner to Intermediate Level)

#vue #javascript #opensource #webdev

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Mar 7

How To Make a Realtime Smile Detector

#python #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Michelle Mannering

Mar 18

How to use Git LFS to store big files on GitHub

#opensource #unity3d #gamedev

3 min read

Vladimir Nikitin

Mar 17

🎉 Zero-config JS Confetti library

#javascript #opensource #webdev #frontend

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Mar 17

Laravella - New CMS Alternative on Laravel Framework

#laravel #php #opensource #javascript

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Mar 17

ANCOVA - Machine Learning

#opensource #machinelearning #beginners #webdev

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Mar 5

Markdown Link Checking in GitHub with Actions

#beginners #opensource #github #javascript

4 min read

Maria Wachal for SoftwareMill

Mar 17

What is the best way to contribute to open source

#opensource #scala #java #jvm

4 min read

Feb 24

Easiest way to quickly deploy AWS infrastructure with Terraform (Open Source Project)

#opensource #programming #terraform #aws

1 min read

Mar 12

How I Built My Site (with Perfect Lighthouse Score)

#webdev #react #opensource #optimized

8 min read

Kaiwalya Koparkar

Mar 16

✨ All about Open Source ✨

#todayilearned #opensource #github

3 min read

Mar 16

Dendron - Super Fast Open Source Note-Taking inside VSCode

#opensource #tooling #vscode #typescript

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 15

AWS open source news and updates #60

#opensource #aws

16 min read

Mar 16

The essential checklist for every open source repository maintainer

#opensource #github #devops #productivity

10 min read

Mar 12

PWA! What is PWA? (Progressive Web App)

#pwa #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Sergei Semenkov

Mar 5

How to load data from Mondrian to Power BI Desktop

#powerbi #mondrian #opensource

2 min read

Feb 10

The arguments against open source (and why they are wrong)

#opensource #license

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Lane Wagner for Qvault

Mar 15

Using a High-Level RabbitMQ Client in Golang

#go #languages #mailinglist #opensource

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Mar 14

Gamestonk Terminal: The next best thing after Bloomberg Terminal.

#showdev #python #opensource #programming

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Mar 15

What Namespace to choose for Open-Sourced .NET Frameworks?

#discuss #dotnet #opensource #healthydebate

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Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

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Collabora Online Community Roundup #10

#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

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Open Source Monetisation #Aviyel

#showdev #opensource #webdev #startup

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Pantelis Kassotis

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3 Open-Source Projects You Can Join Right Now!

#opensource #github

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Mar 14

The beginner's guide to Open Source contribution

#opensource #codenewbie

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#opensource #typescript #javascript #productivity

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#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

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Mar 12

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#devops #aws #opensource #cloud

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 12

Introducing Glassmorphism UI - CSS UI library to build beautiful websites like Apple

#showdev #glassmorphism #opensource

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sarvesh kardekar

Mar 12

Making your Arch to Gentoo switch painless.

#linux #opensource #archlinux

4 min read

Feb 19

Using Twitter API and Reshuffle to manage Social Media Contests and Giveaways

#opensource #twitter #reshuffle #javascript

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Michelle Mannering

Mar 12

Keyboard shortcuts for GitHub • your key to increased productivity

#github #opensource #productivity

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Mar 11

Home Backup Solution

#linux #tutorial #opensource #cloudskills

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Mar 11

O(log n) makes continuous profiling possible in production

#performance #devops #monitoring #opensource

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Josh Simmons for Tidelift

Feb 18

Better together: cultivating an open source ecosystem that works for everyone

#opensource

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Mar 10

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