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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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uttesh

Feb 8 '24

Microservice observability by OpenTelemetry!

#opensource #tracing #observability #opentelemetry

3 min read

jontstaz

Feb 8 '24

AI Coding Agents

#ai #python #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Feb 7 '24

Host your own Google Analytics alternative (and why you should)!

#codesphere #umami #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Feb 7 '24

The Importance of Reading Between the Errors: My 'Prettier' Saga

#programming #github #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Daniel G. Taylor

Feb 7 '24

Reducing Go Dependencies

#go #programming #opensource #openapi

11 min read

Feb 5 '24

Docker alternative Podman on rise 🚀: The Future of DevOps?

#discuss #docker #devops #opensource

3 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Feb 8 '24

How Promoting Open-Source Can Become Problematic

#opensource #devrel #github

3 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Feb 2 '24

AI Grant Traction in OSS Startups

#ai #opensource

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 2 '24

Game Development and Multimedia: theatre.js, Unleashing Creativity in Animation and Motion Design

#opensource #animation #design #javascript

3 min read

RisingWave Labs

Feb 6 '24

Highlights of RisingWave v1.6: The Open-Source Distributed SQL Streaming Database

#database #opensource #productivity #datascience

7 min read

Kathy

Feb 5 '24

Creating a Date Range Picker with Phoenix LiveView

#elixir #liveview #opensource #phoenix

16 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jan 30 '24

What are your favorite open source SaaS products?

#discuss #opensource #saas

1 min read

Philip Miglinci for Glasskube

Feb 2 '24

Introducing Glasskube🧊 — The Missing Package Manager For Kubernetes 📦

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #go

4 min read

TThroo-Dev

Jan 7 '24

JSONCrack Codebase Analysis — Part 4.2.1.1 — JsonEditor — debouncedUpdateJson

#javascript #nextjs #opensource #react

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 4 '24

Development Tools and Platforms: Open Source, SaaS, and BoxyHQ

#opensource #api #saas

4 min read

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