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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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Lymah

Feb 12 '24

Building in Public: Leveraging Tublian's AI Copilot for My Open Source Contributions

#opensource #aicopilot #softwaredevelopment #programming

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 9 '24

Why would you use Backend as a Service (BaaS)?

#opensource #backend #baas #saas

6 min read

Feb 13 '24

HydePHP Version v1.5 Released

#hydephp #php #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 12 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #188

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Rajesh Kumaravel

Feb 13 '24

Demystifying NPM and NPX: A Dive into Package Management

#node #npm #npx #opensource

3 min read

Pieces 🌟 for Pieces.app

Feb 12 '24

Pieces Open Source Meetup #4

#opensource #community #productivity #ai

6 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 11 '24

Transforming Lives Through Code: freeCodeCamp

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 12 '24

Using Finch to run Apache Airflow using mwaa-local-runner

#opensource #airflow #aws #finch

8 min read

Feb 12 '24

Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained - Part 1.18

#opensource #nextjs #javascript #react

2 min read

Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Feb 12 '24

TypeLib JS (part 2) - grouped types

#javascript #opensource #productivity #codequality

3 min read

Feb 11 '24

Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Madden 2025

#javascript #opensource #eslint

4 min read

Feb 12 '24

Java Chess with server and client

#showdev #beginners #java #opensource

1 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 6 '24

Development Tools and Platforms: Create your Dev.to + Pipedream Automation in under 20 minutes

#automation #opensource

4 min read

SyedAsadRazaDevops

Feb 12 '24

Deploy Teleport on a Linux ubuntu Server

#teleport #opensource

2 min read

Feb 11 '24

Feature release 1.36 of the Date::Holidays Perl distribution

#perl #release #cpan #opensource

1 min read

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