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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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Jun 27 '24

How to Search Like a Pro in Answer

#opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jonathan VUILLEMIN

Jun 26 '24

How we're trying to make our PHP devs efficient also with Golang

#go #php #opensource #backend

2 min read

Jun 26 '24

Release 0.9.0 of Ebirah

#perl #docker #release #opensource

2 min read

Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Jun 19 '24

7 Open Source Projects You Should Know - JavaScript Edition ✔️

#opensource #github #javascript #programming

3 min read

Ytalo

Jun 26 '24

Micro Models - How to Build Using This Concept

#ai #openai #opensource #chatgpt

3 min read

Antonio

Jun 25 '24

Mistakes we all make in FOSS

#discuss #opensource #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Palomino for Logto

Jun 26 '24

Why single sign-on (SSO) is better

#webdev #security #opensource #identity

5 min read

Nixys

Jun 26 '24

Maintaining an open-source backup tool: insights and more

#devops #opensource #tooling #go

10 min read

Jul 1 '24

Top 5+ Free Shadcn UI & NextJS Boilerplates/Templates for 2024

#nextjs #webdev #opensource #resources

3 min read

Nimra

Jun 26 '24

Building a Full-Stack Application with Apache AGE and GraphQL

#apacheage #graphql #graphprocessing #opensource

3 min read

Mercy

Jun 25 '24

Emotional Intelligence: The Key to Professional Success

#webdev #productivity #opensource #interview

3 min read

Guillermo Ruiz for AWS Español

Jun 26 '24

Boletín AWS Open Source, June Edition

#opensource #cybersecurity #developers #awsespanol

13 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 24 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #200

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Mercy

Jun 25 '24

The Journey to Financial Freedom: Lessons from Felix

#tutorial #productivity #opensource #career

3 min read

Jun 25 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How does shadcn-ui CLI work? — Part 1.1

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #shadcnui

2 min read

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