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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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coder09

Jan 16 '24

How to Find a Good First Issue on GitHub and Get Action on it 🚀

#github #git #opensource #web

2 min read

Bryce Seefieldt

Dec 13 '23

PyPI Packaging

#python #pypi #opensource

3 min read

Harikrishna Natrajan

Jan 16 '24

Exploring Open Source # 1: Calibre E-book Library

#opensource #selfhost #calibre

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 15 '24

AWS open source newsletter #184

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Utpal Nadiger for Digger

Jan 12 '24

Tools used by the top 1% of Platform Engineers and their Commercial Open Source Alternatives

#devops #go #opensource #aws

3 min read

Jan 15 '24

End-to-end test your CLI tools

#opensource #cli #testing #node

3 min read

Alex for OpenSign

Jan 15 '24

OpenSign™ v1.1.0-beta: The Premier Open Source DocuSign Alternative Just Got Better!

#webdev #react #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jan 10 '24

How to Use Feature Flags in DevOps: Four Use Cases for Developers

#opensource #devops #development #programming

3 min read

Ushakov Michael for Wissance

Jan 14 '24

Format a text in GO better than fmt

#go #opensource #programming #tutorial

3 min read

Ajinkya Chanshetty

Jan 13 '24

Work From Anywhere in 2024 - List of companies that are actively hiring for Remote Work

#remotejob #remotework #opensource #workfromhome

2 min read

Jan 13 '24

Create Your Own Local Chatbot with Next.js, Llama.cpp, and ModelFusion

#javascript #ai #opensource #beginners

7 min read

Jan 25 '24

How to do Open Source Contribution?

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering

3 min read

Mark Phelps for Flipt

Jan 23 '24

️🚀 🚀 Top 3 GitOps Tools for Infrastructure Automation in 2024 🔨

#opensource #devops #cloud #productivity

3 min read

Nik L. for SuprSend

Jan 13 '24

How to Send Email Notifications using JAVA? (3 Methods With Code Examples)

#java #javascript #programming #opensource

8 min read

Lymah

Jan 13 '24

Tublian Internship Diaries: A Look Back at Week 3 in Open Source

#opensource #softwareengineering #internships #programming

6 min read

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