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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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Leonardo Montini for This is Learning

Aug 23 '22

How to find 🔎 an Open Source project to contribute to

#opensource #beginners #programming #tutorial

4 min read

Rohit More

Aug 28 '22

Best resources for self-taught developers

#webdev #beginners #opensource #programming

2 min read

Aug 22 '22

A Practical Guide to Brain.js

#javascript #opensource #webcomponents

3 min read

Naveen Kumar M N

Aug 27 '22

What's on my Raspberry-Pi

#raspberrypi #docker #selfhost #opensource

1 min read

Aug 27 '22

My Contribution to a Popular Open-Source Package Caused a Panic in Golang Projects

#webdev #opensource #programming #github

5 min read

MakendranG

Aug 27 '22

Why developers prefer to build on open source platforms?

#beginners #opensource #devjournal #devops

6 min read

Navendu Pottekkat for Apache APISIX

Aug 26 '22

Best Practices for Building Reliable APIs

#api #devops #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Erin Bensinger for The DEV Team

Aug 26 '22

Follow Friday: Open Source Edition (26 August 2022)

#meta #writing #opensource

1 min read

Alexey Timin for ReductStore

Aug 27 '22

Reduct Storage v0.8.0 has been released

#news #opensource #database #reductstorage

1 min read

Ido David

Aug 27 '22

[DISCUSSION] Code reviews are important!

#discuss #programming #git #opensource

1 min read

Aug 26 '22

Introducing Skeleton: A fully featured Svelte component library.

#svelte #tailwindcss #webdev #opensource

10 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Sep 2 '22

Best practices for managing Java dependencies

#applicationsecurity #opensource #java #security

8 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Aug 26 '22

Measure latency for embedded systems with Luos - Opensource.com

#opensource #microservices #luos

1 min read

Aug 26 '22

Vector Databases for Data-Centric AI (Part 2)

#programming #nlp #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Aug 24 '22

How I Built A Web Development Challenges Website With $0 (And You Can Too!)

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

10 min read

Unicorn Developer

Aug 26 '22

The Orchard Core threequel. Rechecking the project with PVS-Studio

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #codequality

9 min read

Aug 25 '22

An API Validation Aggravation

#api #openapi #opensource #swagger

4 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Aug 25 '22

Open Source Single Pane of Glass Monitoring | SigNoz

#devops #monitoring #opensource

6 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Aug 25 '22

Luos & Micro-ROS: Control your distributed robot with micro-ROS and Luos in resource-constrained MCUs.

#opensource #microservices #tutorial #luos

1 min read

TheWizKid for krud.dev

Aug 25 '22

What I learned in Uni

#programming #career #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Unicorn Developer

Aug 25 '22

How can a static analyzer help Discord.NET developers?

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #codequality

8 min read

Roy for BLST

Aug 24 '22

Releasing Cherrybomb 0.7

#api #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Aug 24 '22

Volt - Free Django Seed Project

#django #opensource

3 min read

Daniel for BLST

Aug 23 '22

OAS is the most critical tool for API Developers

#webdev #programming #api #opensource

3 min read

Necati Özmen for Refine

Aug 24 '22

Using Material UI DataGrid component with refine app

#react #webdev #programming #opensource

12 min read

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