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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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Nick Taylor for OpenSauced

Oct 31 '23

GitHub Actions: A Maintainer's Best Friend

#githubactions #automation #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Nov 9 '23

Building a Globally Connected Network: A Step-by-Step Guide to VPCs, Internet Gateway, and VPC Peering in AWS

#aws #beginners #opensource #devops

3 min read

mkdev.me

Nov 9 '23

How to make money with Open Source projects?

#opensource

5 min read

Veena devi for TestMu AI

Nov 9 '23

Different Types Of Locators In Selenium WebDriver

#selenium #webdev #tutorial #opensource

24 min read

Alex for OpenSign

Nov 9 '23

Unlocking the Power of Open Source: How to Get Involved and Why It Matters

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Katie Liu

Nov 9 '23

Testing using Pytest!

#python #opensource #pytest #testing

5 min read

Nov 5 '23

✨Top 15 GitHub repositories to achieve Typescript Mastery🏆

#webdev #opensource #programming #typescript

6 min read

Bap

Nov 2 '23

🚀 7 Open Source Projects on Product Hunt you CANNOT miss 👀💨

#webdev #productivity #javascript #opensource

5 min read

John P. Rouillard

Nov 9 '23

Copy issue reference to clipboard enhancement

#webdev #opensource #javascript #frontend

3 min read

Nov 8 '23

AWS VPC Project: Learn How to Design and Configure Virtual Private Clouds

#aws #beginners #devops #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 6 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #178

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Geri Máté for dyrector.io

Nov 8 '23

Why You Should Self-Host GitHub Runners – Or Stay Away from It

#github #cicd #githubactions #opensource

7 min read

Nov 2 '23

😎 React App Leveled Up with Open-Source SSO Auth Wizardry 🪄

#webdev #programming #tutorial #opensource

9 min read

Vince Lwt for Lunary

Nov 6 '23

⭐ 9 Open Source tools to take your AI app to the next level 🚀🤖

#ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Tymoteusz Stępień

Nov 8 '23

Cypress vs. Sorry-Cypress - Decoding the Drama

#programming #opensource #testing

6 min read

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