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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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juliet shiamala

May 25 '22

Centralized cryptocurrency exchange development

#programming #opensource #blockchain #startup

4 min read

Dan Ribbens for Payload CMS

May 24 '22

Payload is now completely free and open source

#opensource #javascript #webdev #node

4 min read

Shad Amez

Apr 25 '22

Heapland 0.2.0 released

#devops #kafka #database #opensource

1 min read

May 25 '22

Data Preparation for Analytics

#discuss #github #opensource #database

3 min read

Sohini Pattanayak for Entando

May 24 '22

Do you think Composable?

#composable #beginners #k8s #opensource

2 min read

Danglewood

Apr 21 '22

OpenBB is hiring Junior Python Developers and Senior Software Engineers passionate about the future of finance!

#opensource #python #career #devops

1 min read

Quik2007

Apr 21 '22

What is your favorite NAS distro/software?

#discuss #nas #opensource

1 min read

ZigRazor

May 24 '22

MicroService Framework in C++

#cpp #programming #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Kubeshop for Kubeshop

Apr 20 '22

Monokle 101 - Managing Your Kubernetes Manifests

#kubernetes #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Everly Precia Suresh for Appwrite

May 23 '22

Appwrite Storage Meets Wasabi Cloud Storage

#opensource #appwrite #tutorial

3 min read

Chell

May 24 '22

Build Static Blog with several lines of HTML and MD

#discuss #webdev #opensource #react

1 min read

alesbe

May 24 '22

I made a Sorting Visualizer!

#showdev #cpp #programming #opensource

1 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

May 13 '22

Timestamp

#microservices #tutorial #opensource #luos

1 min read

Kubeshop for Kubeshop

Apr 20 '22

Can You GitOps Your APIs?

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #programming

6 min read

Nicolas Frizzarin for This is Angular

May 24 '22

Le futur d'Angular (part 1)

#angular #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

May 23 '22

Why do I LOVE OpenSource?

#opensource #love #spring #community

1 min read

May 24 '22

Use TiDB Cloud to Analyze GitHub Events in 10 Minutes

#discuss #github #opensource #cloud

4 min read

Intesar Mohammed

May 23 '22

What is DAST, and Why Should Developers Use It?

#security #programming #opensource #api

2 min read

May 23 '22

Make your first open-source contribution

#git #github #programming #opensource

2 min read

May 23 '22

ActiveAdmin vs ToolJet

#opensource #tooljet #framework

4 min read

Kevin Wan

May 23 '22

Sending type-safe HTTP requests with Go

#go #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Tim Carey

May 23 '22

My first contribution to open source

#rails #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

May 23 '22

Weather App developed with React

#typescript #react #opensource

1 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 2 '22

Can Open-Source Exist in China? 🎙

#news #opensource #ios #a11y

1 min read

Danglewood

May 12 '22

OpenBB is Setting the Standard for Customer Support and Service in the FOSS Community. We Named our new Feature, Support!

#showdev #opensource #python #help

3 min read

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