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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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Gianluca

Sep 5 '23

Kubernetes Add-ons: Visibility and Control

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Victor Gerbrands for Medusa

Sep 4 '23

Medusa Next.js Starter now has Product Module support

#medusajs #nextjs #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Sep 4 '23

Adding SAML Single Sign-On to an Express App: A Step-by-Step Guide 🚀🚀

#javascript #programming #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Zac_A_Clifton for novu

Aug 28 '23

📜 Novu's Communication Manifest: Lighting the Path to our Future 💡

#remotework #principles #opensource #operations

3 min read

Kaustubh Shinde

Sep 5 '23

Interactive Social Media Buttons ✨

#codepen #webdev #opensource #css

1 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Sep 4 '23

Hoppscotch for Enterprise: The open source, on premise API Platform

#webdev #opensource #api #tutorial

3 min read

Sep 3 '23

The Road to Enhanced Flutter Development Part 1

#flutter #devtools #opensource

4 min read

Ido David for sharkio

Sep 5 '23

The best API dev tool yet!

#api #tooling #opensource #microservices

1 min read

Mila Wu for Bytebase

Sep 4 '23

👻Top 8 Free, Open Source SQL Clients🔥

#programming #beginners #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Rishabh Rathod 🤺 for Appsmith

Sep 4 '23

How We Fixed Performance With JS Object Variable Mutation

#javascript #appsmith #opensource #productivity

8 min read

Alexander Clemens

Sep 4 '23

Before I Die Code: Week 3 Roundup and Gratitude for Our Open Source Contributors

#beginners #opensource #learning #contributorswanted

3 min read

Sep 4 '23

LFX Mentorship - My Experience

#opensource #docker #devops #cloudnative

6 min read

CrabNebula

Sep 4 '23

Meet the Team: Matthias & Knowledge Transfer

#rust #tauri #opensource #security

7 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 1 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 57)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Edoardo Dusi for SparkFabrik

Sep 4 '23

OSCM: The Open Source Consumption Manifesto

#oscm #security #softwaresupplychain #opensource

5 min read

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