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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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Alexander Samaniego

Sep 8 '22

Open-Source Rookie

#beginners #opensource

3 min read

Raffi Sarkissian for Lago

Sep 8 '22

6 steps to build a usage-based billing system with Lago (YC S21)

#billing #opensource

6 min read

Sep 8 '22

10 Trending Github repositories / September, 8 2022

#github #opensource

3 min read

Aviv Mor for krud.dev

Sep 8 '22

Object Mapping advanced features & QoL with Java

#opensource #java #architecture #oop

7 min read

Sep 8 '22

My journey in the land of Linux!

#linux #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Oleksii Borisenko

Sep 8 '22

Complete guide to open source licenses for developers. Friendly licenses for proprietary software

#opensource #license #tutorial

17 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Sep 7 '22

Are microservices optimized for edge and embedded? Q&A live

#opensource #microservices #embedded #luos

1 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 7 '22

Flask Example OAuth Github - Free Product

#flask #oauth #opensource

2 min read

Shai Almog

Aug 30 '22

Open Source Bait and Switch

#opensource #programming #community #devrel

7 min read

Unicorn Developer

Sep 7 '22

Build to order? Checking MSBuild for the second time

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #programming

10 min read

Sep 1 '22

How I Maintain OSS Projects

#opensource #github #tutorial #devops

5 min read

Sep 7 '22

The mysteries of GraphQL clients' cache - The Introduction

#graphql #opensource #tutorial #webdev

7 min read

Ramakrushna Mohapatra

Sep 7 '22

Open Source: Github From Zero to Hero

#github #git #opensource

7 min read

Johannes Hötter for Kern AI

Sep 6 '22

Build for Hugging Face, Rasa or Sklearn

#opensource #nlp #datascience #python

2 min read

Sep 7 '22

How to solve C++ memory problems efficiently

#apachedoris #programming #opensource #database

8 min read

Sep 6 '22

Release 0.3.0 of my Perl Dist::Zilla GitHub Action

#perl #githubaction #release #opensource

2 min read

Matt Davis

Sep 6 '22

Pipenv Install Performance Improved

#pipenv #python #opensource

3 min read

Ben Lloyd Pearson for Mattermost

Aug 8 '22

Is it time to give up GitHub? August Open Source News

#opensource #github #git #security

1 min read

TheWizKid for krud.dev

Sep 6 '22

My First Real Job

#programming #career #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Sep 6 '22

Published Chrome extension for streamlined React development🎉

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Hasura for Hasura

Sep 6 '22

Instant streaming APIs with built-in authorization for new or existing Postgres

#graphql #postgres #api #opensource

10 min read

Tomer Barnea for novu

Aug 31 '22

Open Source Redesigned

#webdev #opensource #css #design

3 min read

Sep 6 '22

Digital Compositing on Mobile

#mobile #opensource #ux #swift

5 min read

Sep 6 '22

From Chaining/Blending to Compositing Core Image CIFilter

#swift #ios #opensource

5 min read

Sep 5 '22

My Key Takeaways From The Campus DevRel Show | Juan Pablo Flores E2

#opensource #beginners #github #career

5 min read

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