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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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May 22 '24

What’s in a name? Making Sense of Apache Kafka’s auto.offset.reset

#kafka #opensource #backend #programming

5 min read

May 22 '24

Find out how the Ora package is used to show a CLI spinner in shadcn-ui/ui source code.

#javascript #opensource #shadcnui #nextjs

2 min read

May 22 '24

Understanding Python Bytecode and the Virtual Machine for Better Development

#python #programming #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Tiexin Guo for GitGuardian

May 22 '24

Open-Source Software Security

#opensource #security #learning

11 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

May 17 '24

Debunking Common Kubernetes Myths

#kubernetes #docker #devops #opensource

4 min read

May 1 '24

Opensource Installation

#opensource #python #devops #github

1 min read

May 22 '24

Why Godot is a Game Changer in Game Development

#gamedev #godot #godotengine #opensource

3 min read

Samagra Shrivastava

May 22 '24

How To Learn Python in 2024: 10 Online Resources

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Ayu Adiati

May 21 '24

From Contributor to Maintainer: My Journey in Open Source

#watercooler #opensource #codenewbie

5 min read

May 22 '24

Dr. House — AI Diagnostician in your phone. Passing the Startup Torch to Capable Hands

#startup #opensource #mobile #ai

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 21 '24

Pour One Out for create-react-app: What's Next?

#opensource #frontend #react

5 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Jun 7 '24

The Easiest Way to Get Started with Kubernetes

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #tutorial

5 min read

May 21 '24

getRegistryIndex() function in shadcn-ui/ui source code.

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #shadcnui

2 min read

GIGO Dev

May 21 '24

How to Contribute to the Open Source Learn to Code Platform GIGO Dev

#opensource #github #coding #programming

3 min read

May 21 '24

GitHub Sponsors 💰 and Perl 🐫

#github #opensource #perl

1 min read

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