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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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AnhChienVu

Nov 12 '24

Implementing a CI Pipeline for VShell with GitHub Actions

#ci #javascript #codenewbie #opensource

2 min read

Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Dec 16 '24

Consideration of OSS Activity Metrics Based on GitHub Repository Data

#ospo #opensource #github #marketing

6 min read

Nov 11 '24

Meet PostPilot

#go #programming #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Vivesh

Dec 15 '24

Deploying an Application to a Cloud Provider Using a CI-CD Pipeline

#cloud #opensource #devops #gitlab

4 min read

Arindam Majumder

Nov 14 '24

9 Open Source Libraries to Supercharge Your Next Project 🔋⚡️

#opensource #webdev #javascript #beginners

11 min read

Lymah

Dec 15 '24

Week Three of #100DaysOfCode

#100daysofcode #buildinpublic #opensource #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Techcreator USA

Nov 11 '24

How does WebAssembly enhance web application performance?

#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

1 min read

Will Jones

Nov 11 '24

Feedback loop!

#opensource

1 min read

Sanskar A

Nov 11 '24

Rotating an object in OpenGL 4.6 not centered at origin

#opensource #gamedev #programming

1 min read

Mahmoud Ramadan

Dec 15 '24

🔓 Unlock the Power of Easy Model: Features You’ll Love!

#webdev #php #laravel #opensource

1 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Dec 12 '24

🔥How to fetch HTML from server

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Dec 13 '24

Building Express.js Backend Services Should be Easy!

#typescript #opensource #node #javascript

3 min read

Dec 14 '24

Dockerfile for a Python application

#docker #python #opensource #devops

2 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Dec 14 '24

Progress on Goliat Dashboard: Initial Workspace View Completed

#goliatdashboard #terraform #opentofu #opensource

3 min read

Abdullah Al Mamun Fahim

Nov 11 '24

Making CI pipeline for Explainer.js

#javascript #opensource #github #cli

2 min read

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