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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 21 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 51)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Fernando for IDURAR AI , Inc | Where Ai Build Software

Jul 24 '23

Front-End vs Back-End Development: Choosing the Right Path

#opensource #frontend #backend #node

5 min read

Jul 25 '23

Im a Self-Teaching C++ Dev on the road to an internship!

#cpp #opensource #codenewbie #beginners

2 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Jun 20 '23

FLaNK Stack Weekly for 20 June 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

6 min read

Jul 21 '23

Commit with a Past Date and Time in Git

#git #opensource #beginners #programming

1 min read

Felix

Jul 4 '23

A Better Version Is Released - Selefra v0.2.3

#aws #devops #chatgpt #opensource

2 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Platform.sh

Jul 24 '23

Giving you the tools to make the most informed decisions concerning your projects’ digital carbon footprint

#news #opensource #cloud #webdev

1 min read

Birk Jernström

Jul 24 '23

I'm pledging $30K to open source. Which efforts need support?

#opensource

1 min read

Riley Sage

Jul 24 '23

What is Truthy and Falsy in Javascript ?

#javascript #tutorial #opensource #programming

1 min read

Fernando for IDURAR AI , Inc | Where Ai Build Software

Jul 23 '23

How Contributing to Open Source Projects Can Help You Land Your Dream Job

#opensource #javascript #react #programming

5 min read

Jul 24 '23

Mastering Git Commit Messages: Best Practices and Markdown Usage

#github #development #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jul 24 '23

OpenSearch CRUD operation in Go

#go #opensource #opensearch #crud

6 min read

Taylor Beseda for Begin

Jul 12 '23

Air Quality App with Enhance

#enhance #database #aws #opensource

4 min read

Jul 21 '23

Good bye and thanks to "typescript-is" (ancestor of "typia")

#javascript #programming #typescript #opensource

9 min read

Shelender Kumar 🇵🇰

Jul 22 '23

Mastering Query Optimization with Apache AGE: Enhance Database Performance Like Never Before

#apache #opensource #database #postgressql

2 min read

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