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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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Gabriel Grinberg

Aug 10 '23

Build a Discord Bot Using Visual Programming in VSCode With Flyde

#beginners #opensource #discord #bots

10 min read

Shai Almog

Aug 8 '23

Is OpenJDK Just a Drop-In Replacement?

#java #opensource #books #devops

5 min read

John McBride for OpenSauced

Aug 9 '23

Caching Git Repos: A Deep Dive into OpenSauced’s ‘Pizza Oven’ Service

#go #datastructures #opensource

7 min read

Jonathan Reimer

Aug 10 '23

How to Acquire Users for Your Developer Tool? with Rishabh Kaul (Appsmith)

#developermarketing #opensource #growth #developerled

4 min read

Eric Allam for Trigger.dev

Aug 10 '23

⚡Supacharge your backend with Supabase & Trigger.dev

#opensource #typescript #nextjs #serverless

9 min read

Imam Ali Mustofa

Aug 10 '23

LA.f.E-BD-Ma.D.t.CF(c).i.ODM.t.N.o.D - Part 00: Purpose and Scope

#codenewbie #learning #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Hebert Montarroyos

Aug 10 '23

Como contribuir com projeto open source e apoiar a comunidade

#opensource #git #github #coding

4 min read

James Lau

Aug 9 '23

The Constant Gardener

#opensource #volunteer #career #wordpress

4 min read

Gianluca

Aug 10 '23

Sveltos: Automate Configuration Updates for Kubernetes Applications

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #management

2 min read

Ayu Adiati

Aug 7 '23

#100DaysOfOSS Recap: Day 1-14

#opensource #codenewbie #webdev #beginners

4 min read

Aug 10 '23

Deployment overview of micro-cluster for Secutils.dev micro-SaaS

#buildinpublic #opensource #security #microsaas

4 min read

Timi

Aug 5 '23

Use Type, not Interface in TypeScript

#typescript #opensource #node #react

3 min read

Elian Van Cutsem

Aug 7 '23

I'm joining Astro full time!

#astro #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 8 '23

Open Source ABCs: Evolution

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Aug 10 '23

The astro-deck's CLI

#astro #cli #opensource #typescript

4 min read

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