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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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Zayyad Muhammad Sani

Nov 12 '24

Using OpenFeature with ConfigCat

#opensource #featureflags #openfeature

6 min read

Ojay

Dec 16 '24

Enforcing Git Branch Naming Standards: Tools and Tips for Developers

#git #github #opensource #developer

2 min read

Ojay

Dec 16 '24

Enforcing Git Branch Naming Standards: Tools and Tips for Developers

#git #github #opensource #developer

2 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Nov 17 '24

Implementing CI with GitHub Actions Workflow

#github #githubactions #opensource #jest

2 min read

Elena Alcalde Rueda

Nov 12 '24

🏆 Penpot Plugins Contest

#opensource #webdev #javascript #devchallenge

1 min read

Dec 5 '24

These 7 AI Tools Helped Me Write Better Code in 2024

#productivity #programming #opensource #beginners

12 min read

Judy

Dec 16 '24

The Data Lake’s Impossible Triangle

#discuss #programming #devops #opensource

10 min read

Dec 16 '24

Comparison of S3 upload feature between Documenso and aws-s3-image-upload example

#opensource #typescript #javascript #s3

7 min read

Dec 16 '24

🚀 Open Source Notification Scheduler in Go! 🌟 [Looking for Contributors]

#opensource #development #go #ui

1 min read

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

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