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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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Johannes

Sep 1 '23

🤘🤓🤘 Join Formbricks! (Senior) Full-Stack Engineer needed 🤘🤓🤘

#opensource #job #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Marcin

Aug 29 '23

Are you on Discord communities related to Open-Source libraries?

#discuss #programming #opensource #learning

1 min read

eylonmiz for Pezzo

Sep 1 '23

The 5 Pillars for taking LLM to production

#llm #webdev #opensource #openai

4 min read

Kellen for QuestDB

Sep 1 '23

Our Website Source Is Now Private, A Cautionary Tale

#webdev #learning #opensource

6 min read

Bradley Schofield for Appwrite

Aug 31 '23

Introducing Appwrite Migrations: Effortless data migration from your platforms

#database #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Sep 1 '23

I created Threads Clone

#webdev #beginners #react #opensource

1 min read

Wonuola

Jul 29 '23

Still confused on how to get started in open source?

#webdev #beginners #opensource #programming

1 min read

Doğukan Eren for Açıklab

Sep 1 '23

OpenStack Sflow Entegrasyonu Openvswitch

#cloud #network #opensource #linux

1 min read

Doğukan Eren for Açıklab

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OpenStack Keystone LDAP Konfigürasyonu

#opensource #linux #tutorial #cloud

1 min read

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Next.js 13 - Use Server Action to submit form data

#webdev #nextjs #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Aug 31 '23

Introducing Hoppscotch Enterprise Edition and a plethora of features - The Hoppscotch August 2023 Release You Can't Miss!

#opensource #api #vue #webdev

3 min read

alisdairbr for Koyeb

Aug 31 '23

Deploy Authorizer to Handle User Authentication on Koyeb

#tutorial #webdev #opensource #security

8 min read

Aug 31 '23

Time management, subtraction as a life motto

#buildinpublic #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Platform.sh

Aug 31 '23

Step up your debugging game with Blackfire's new debug option to troubleshoot Segfaults 👾

#webdev #opensource #tutorial #php

1 min read

Aug 31 '23

Supabase ⚡ database functions

#javascript #supabase #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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