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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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Viktor Le

Nov 28 '24

How to visualize bar chart with react-chart-2, showing label on the bar

#programming #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

Leticia @levxyca for Feministech

Nov 27 '24

Desvendando o código aberto: junte-se à revolução colaborativa

#braziliandevs #opensource #github

4 min read

Nov 27 '24

Dockerfile Explain

#docker #opensource #dockerfile #devops

5 min read

Nov 28 '24

Secure Device Authentication in Python: Introducing the System Hardware ID Generator Script

#python #security #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Nov 28 '24

How We Started Continuous OSS License Monitoring with License Finder

#opensource #license #ci #githubactions

6 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Oct 25 '24

The Apache SeaTunnel Community Welcomes A New Committer From India!

#opensource #apacheseatunnel #programming #datascience

4 min read

Nandani Sharma for Canopas Software

Oct 25 '24

How To Create a Parallax Movie Pager In Jetpack Compose

#android #kotlin #opensource #programming

5 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Jan 23 '25

Why we’re betting on Kubernetes (and you should too)

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Nov 27 '24

Set Default Values in Laravel with mergeIfMissing: Real-Life Examples

#tutorial #opensource #laravel #productivity

2 min read

Oct 24 '24

Khelo: From Streets to Stadiums - A Developer's Guide 🏏

#opensource #flutter #github #firebase

2 min read

Kev

Oct 24 '24

Building Resilient Apps: Overcoming Connectivity Challenges with Seamless Event Syncing

#webdev #npm #programming #opensource

4 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

Oct 24 '24

The open source maintainer community is getting grayer

#opensource #maintainer #tidelift #survey

6 min read

keploy

Nov 27 '24

API Testing: Ensuring Reliable and Robust Software Applications

#api #devops #opensource #java

3 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Nov 27 '24

Don’t rush aimlessly but keep faith if it’s something you trust and work in making it work

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

haimzlato

Nov 7 '24

Build Limitless Automations in Python - "Zapier" for Developers

#devops #opensource #tooling #automation

2 min read

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