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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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Lane Wagner for Qvault

Mar 15

Using a High-Level RabbitMQ Client in Golang

#go #languages #mailinglist #opensource

4 min read

Mar 14

Gamestonk Terminal: The next best thing after Bloomberg Terminal.

#showdev #python #opensource #programming

3 min read

Mar 15

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

#discuss #dotnet #opensource #healthydebate

1 min read

Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

Mar 15

Collabora Online Community Roundup #10

#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

12 min read

Jose - Aviyel for Aviyel Inc

Mar 13

Open Source Monetisation #Aviyel

#showdev #opensource #webdev #startup

3 min read

Pantelis Kassotis

Mar 13

3 Open-Source Projects You Can Join Right Now!

#opensource #github

2 min read

Mar 14

The beginner's guide to Open Source contribution

#opensource #codenewbie

3 min read

Mar 14

SnowFS ❄️ Let's bring version control to graphic projects

#opensource #typescript #javascript #productivity

2 min read

Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

Mar 13

Collabora Online Community Roundup #9 (New Year Edition!)

#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

22 min read

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Alistair Scott for Infracost

Mar 12

Cloud costs are shifting left

#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

2 min read

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

6 min read

Michelle Mannering

Mar 12

Keyboard shortcuts for GitHub • your key to increased productivity

#github #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 11

Home Backup Solution

#linux #tutorial #opensource #cloudskills

4 min read

Mar 11

O(log n) makes continuous profiling possible in production

#performance #devops #monitoring #opensource

4 min read

Josh Simmons for Tidelift

Feb 18

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

#opensource

4 min read

Mar 10

The best hex editor that you have never heard of

#programming #tutorial #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Mar 10

How it all began

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Mar 10

🦋Flutter - Manage Widget Permissions

#flutter #dart #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Skyhub UAP Tracker Information

Mar 10

AI ML UAP Tracker Project

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

Mridul Bhandari for IBM Developer

Mar 9

What is Open Source, and why is it important?

#opensource #ibm #redhat #callforcode

5 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Mar 8

February: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#meta #opensource

2 min read

Mar 9

Taro – A Lightweight 3D Game Engine for the Web

#showdev #javascript #opensource #gamedev

3 min read

Aaron Powell for Microsoft Azure

Mar 8

Your Open Source Project Needs a devcontainer - Here's Why

#vscode #docker #opensource #productivity

5 min read

David Michael Barr

Feb 26

Video encoder rollback optimization in rav1e

#av1 #optimization #opensource #video

15 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 8

Glassmorphism UI

#showdev #opensource

1 min read

Mar 8

Machine Learning Resources..

#machinelearning #opensource #beginners #datascience

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 8

AWS open source news and updates #59

#aws #opensource

16 min read

Feb 2

Release 1.51 of perl-workflow

#opensource #perl #release

4 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Feb 25

Making PONGPONG - Game Development using Pyglet - Part 3

#python #github #opensource #gamedev

11 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Feb 25

Making PONGPONG - Game Development using Pyglet - Part 2

#python #github #opensource #gamedev

8 min read

Mar 8

My Journey from web2 to web3 in the Ethereum India Fellowship 2.0

#blockchain #opensource #javascript #devjournal

5 min read

Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

Mar 8

Collabora Online Community Roundup #8

#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

11 min read

Mar 7

Getting Started with Node.js

#opensource #beginners #html #codenewbie

2 min read

Feb 6

How Many Releases Do We Need?

#github #opensource

2 min read

Brandon Roberts

Mar 5

My Journey into Developer Relations

#devrel #career #nrwl #opensource

3 min read

Lucas Santos for Microsoft Azure

Feb 23

Dando permissões a usuários com Kubernetes

#kubernetes #containers #opensource #security

9 min read

Mar 6

Building A LMS: What I Have Accomplished In Two Years

#saas #opensource #nextjs #javascript

7 min read

Feb 22

The Open Source Community is quite literally the best

#opensource #linux #audio #music

1 min read

Mar 5

Markdown 101 Basic To Advance Guide - Part 1

#markdown #opensource #github #beginners

3 min read

Quod AI for Quod AI

Mar 5

How to use Firestore: A deep dive into Todoist clone

#firebase #opensource #tutorial

13 min read

Maxime Guilbert

Feb 22

Keycloak - Your own OAuth platform

#devops #opensource #kubernetes

2 min read

Mohammed Farmaan.

Mar 5

Weatherify: A Simple Weather App using Flutter.

#showdev #opensource #flutter #webdev

1 min read

Feb 22

I wrote a type-checked React form state manager.

#react #typescript #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Anderson Bravalheri

Mar 4

PyScaffold 4.0 is here 🔥

#news #python #packaging #opensource

6 min read

Michelle Mannering

Mar 4

How to create and pin a gist on GitHub

#github #opensource #gist

3 min read

Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

Mar 4

Collabora Online Community Roundup #7

#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

9 min read

Mar 3

Making a living from open source

#opensource #webdev

7 min read

vincent d warmerdam

Mar 3

A `for`-loop to stop writing.

#python #sideprojects #opensource

6 min read

Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

Mar 3

Collabora Online Community Roundup #6

#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

8 min read

Mar 3

GitHub Profile README Generator

#python #opensource #github #markdown

2 min read

Gitlab Meetup Community

Feb 1

Highlights of the Gitlab 13.8

#gitlab #devops #opensource

2 min read

Vishal Narkhede

Mar 1

React Native: How To Build Bidirectional Infinite Scroll

#reactnative #infinitescroll #opensource

6 min read

Feb 9

React-toastify v7 is live

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Feb 22

Free and open source Bootstrap 5 UI Kit

#opensource #bootstrap #css #javascript

3 min read

Feb 28

Tips For Beginners to Open Source

#tips #beginners #opensource #advice

4 min read

Chittoji Murali Sree Krishna

Mar 2

Vanilla Arch Linux Installation With ext4 filesystem

#archlinux #linux #opensource

1 min read

Feb 9

Why #100DaysOfCode?

#challenge #codenewbie #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Feb 9

Introducing stencil.email

#showdev #opensource

1 min read

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