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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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Super simple validated structs in Elixir

#elixir #programming #opensource #testing

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GitHub Sponsors - A series on giving an receiving 💰

#discuss #github #opensource

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ChatCraft v2.0.0

#opensource #ai #typescript #react

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Abbas

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#news #beginners #ai #opensource

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Goodness Chukwudi

Apr 20 '24

A step-by-step guide on how to create and publish an npm package

#javascript #node #opensource #npm

5 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Apr 12 '24

How Telemetry Saved my Open-Source Platform

#showdev #opensource #buildinpublic #kubernetes

5 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Apr 20 '24

ChatCraft Advenures #14: ChakraUI Troubles, My First Revert, and Final Recap

#opensource #webdev #beginners #react

12 min read

Katie Liu

Apr 19 '24

ChatCraft week 14: Releasing v2.0!

#chatcraft #opensource #typescript #react

3 min read

Gorkem Ercan for Jozu

Apr 19 '24

Strategies for Tagging ModelKits

#mlops #devops #opensource

3 min read

Justine Devasia

Apr 19 '24

Docker Log Observability: Analyzing Container Logs in HashiCorp Nomad with Vector, Loki, and Grafana

#docker #devops #sre #opensource

8 min read

Mar 21 '24

Introducing Backgroundable - Your Wallpaper Companion! 🌟

#androiddev #compose #opensource #github

1 min read

Hubert Lewandowski

Apr 19 '24

Test it, dang it!

#opensource #unittest #beginners

3 min read

Apr 19 '24

Ansible Vault Secrets Documentation

#ansible #redhat #devops #opensource

3 min read

Paul Love for Measured

Apr 19 '24

Accessible syntax highlighting colour schemes for developers

#a11y #opensource #ui

2 min read

Alexandra for Etherspot

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Arka Paymaster Service: Empowering Devs with Open-Source Account Abstraction Tool

#blockchain #tooling #opensource #dapp

3 min read

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