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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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Paul

Aug 22 '24

What are you guys building?

#discuss #opensource #webdev #saas

1 min read

Leo

Aug 14 '24

Podcast Production with streamtasks

#showdev #opensource #podcast #productivity

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 13 '24

How does Cal.com check out?

#opensource

1 min read

Oats〜i

Aug 13 '24

Introducing Oats~i - The Open Web Framework

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

21 min read

Rajni Rethesh for Middleware

Aug 12 '24

Building a Security-First Engineering Culture

#webdev #devops #productivity #opensource

10 min read

Aug 12 '24

Moving User Management from In-House to a Product: Why We Did It and What We Learned

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

14 min read

Aug 13 '24

Autogenerated Swagger Docs for your Express APIs

#typescript #node #docker #opensource

1 min read

Aug 9 '24

STOP versioning your Docker Compose file

#docker #devops #opensource #development

3 min read

Aug 13 '24

Why i created a lightweight mini spring alternative and how I did it

#opensource #java #softwaredevelopment

7 min read

Aug 13 '24

Organize your components and layouts in your pages-based Next.js application this way.

#javascript #opensource #supabase #typescript

3 min read

Tobi Aderounmu for Langtrace

Aug 27 '24

How Salomatic Used Langtrace to Build a Reliable Medical Report Generation System

#ai #llm #dspy #opensource

4 min read

Olabode Lawal-Shittabey

Aug 13 '24

Building jargons.dev [#1]: The Base Dictionary

#opensource #productivity #javascript #buildinpublic

3 min read

Bastien R.

Aug 13 '24

🚀 Kickstart Your Microservices Development with Go! 🚀

#go #microservices #programming #opensource

1 min read

Arek Krysik for Openkoda

Aug 13 '24

Openkoda - Open Source Salesforce Alternative For Enterprise Insurance Applications

#opensource #webdev #java

3 min read

Jose Francisco Rives

Aug 13 '24

El precio del software libre para un programador

#opensource

2 min read

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