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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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#cloud #monitoring #opensource #devops

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Aug 19

My First Pull Request Journey And How I Synced My Fork

#github #opensource #git #programming

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#dataengineering #resources #data #opensource

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Sep 20

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#webdev #homelab #opensource #selfhosted

3 min read

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#showdev #opensource #fintech #webdev

1 min read

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Sep 22

Discuss: What’s the #1 headache in portfolio tracking today?

#discuss #opensource #fintech #productivity

1 min read

Roman Tsypuk for AWS Community Builders

Sep 22

AWS OpenSearch Full Documents Reindexing: When? Why? How?

#database #aws #opensource #devops

5 min read

Sep 22

Pairly Weekly Update – Week #1

#opensource #fullstack #webdev #privacy

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Aug 19

ZardUI Beta: Bringing shadcn/ui's Philosophy to Angular - Where You Own Every Line of Code

#webdev #angular #shadcn #opensource

4 min read

Sep 20

100 Ways to Earn Extra Cash as a Developer 💰

#programming #ai #beginners #opensource

17 min read

Somenath Mukhopadhyay

Sep 11

Verifying a Classic: Simulating Poiseuille Flow with OpenFOAM and ParaView - the engineer in me is still alive...

#opensource #science #tooling

2 min read

Sep 16

Making Nike Run Club Searchable

#running #webdev #sideprojects #opensource

2 min read

Aug 19

10 Best Kiosk Software Solutions for Kiosk Computers

#security #software #kiosk #opensource

3 min read

Farzan Afringan

Sep 21

Why Linux Kernel is the Beating Heart of Technology

#linux #kernel #opensource #technology

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Aug 19

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#programming #opensource #earl #indonesia

1 min read

Federico Moretti

Sep 21

How to Get The GIMP Working With macOS Tahoe (and What Happened)

#news #tutorial #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jaskaran Deogan

Sep 22

Self-Hosting Listmonk with Coolify: Your Own Newsletter Platform in Minutes

#newsletter #selfhosting #opensource #marketing

4 min read

Maxim

Aug 18

Open-source project management app

#webdev #nextjs #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Margarita Sliachina

Sep 20

LLM Observability: Debugging My Journaling Agent

#ai #llm #opensource #langfuse

4 min read

Aug 18

Why did I build a transparent, account-free, open-source URL shortener?

#opensource #programming #webdev #api

8 min read

Ali Arshad

Aug 18

The Hidden Cost of Security Tool Sprawl: Why Free Alternatives Matter

#cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Edward Hernandez

Aug 18

Wallinter-Hybrid: A New Protocol for Human-AI Collaboration

#ai #opensource #research #projectmanagement

2 min read

Lakshan Madushanka

Sep 21

Introduction to TrueReviewer: A Product Review Package for Laravel 🚀

#laravel #vue #opensource #webdev

2 min read

toms

Aug 19

IntelHub — local-first OSINT toolkit for your browser (open source)

#osint #security #opensource #privacy

1 min read

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Aug 18

How AI is Changing Milestone Tracking in Project Management

#opensource #webdev #programming #ai

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