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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.

submission guidelines

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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Palomino for Logto

May 16 '24

Logto product update: Compliance status, custom JWT, API resources for organization roles, and more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

Gaspard Boursin for Meteroid

Apr 29 '24

What we learned building our SaaS with Rust 🦀

#webdev #rust #opensource #beginners

9 min read

Igor AG

May 16 '24

10 Best Open Source CRM Solutions of 2024

#productivity #opensource

9 min read

yogini16

May 16 '24

Opinionated Architecture: Simple Guide for Beginners

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

2 min read

NocoBase

May 14 '24

How much revenue can an unknown open-source project get

#lowcode #nocode #opensource #github

10 min read

John McBride for OpenSauced

May 14 '24

How We Saved 10s of Thousands of Dollars Deploying Low Cost Open Source AI Technologies At Scale with Kubernetes

#ai #devops #kubernetes #opensource

13 min read

Vitali Haradkou

Apr 12 '24

RSLike@3. Well-known Symbols, Improved Usage of TypeScript, and Weighing More

#typescript #javascript #npm #opensource

7 min read

May 9 '24

Mastering Git: 13 Advanced Techniques and Shortcuts for Efficiency

#git #github #opensource #programming

3 min read

May 16 '24

Indie Hacker, faça você mesmo #1 - Use o Github Actions pra fazer os code reviews automaticamente

#indiehacker #buildinpublic #opensource

4 min read

May 15 '24

Best practices from open source: Use img.decode() in image-heavy applications

#javascript #nextjs #react #opensource

5 min read

Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

May 14 '24

Middleware: Open-Source DORA Metrics for a Smoother Engineering Flow

#devops #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Abby Nduta

May 15 '24

My Outreachy Application Journey

#opensource #webdev #cloud #python

4 min read

May 15 '24

Open Source Admin Dashboard Starter: Ant Design v5, TypeScript, MongoDB

#react #javascript #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

May 14 '24

Getting Started with Middleware Open Source

#productivity #opensource #devops

3 min read

May 15 '24

Why I moved from CloudWatch to Errsole!

#opensource #javascript #devops #aws

2 min read

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