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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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Jun 1 '23

Get CIA certificate by exploring archives. Golang solution for Web Archive data extraction.

#go #opensource #api #tutorial

6 min read

John Rush

May 31 '23

Dreams vs. Reality: Building an Open-Source Project (DevHunt)

#opensource #devtool #buildinpublic

3 min read

Arek Nawo for Vrite

May 19 '23

Better blogging on Dev.to with Vrite - headless CMS for technical content

#opensource #webdev #writing #productivity

10 min read

Adam Tal

May 20 '23

From Production Outage to the Front Page of Hacker News

#postgres #opensource #python #career

2 min read

May 31 '23

Weekly web development resources #151

#webdev #javascript #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Cait Bixby for Tidelift

May 31 '23

Upstream speaker spotlight: Julia Ferraioli, co-founder of Open Source Voices

#opensource #maintainers #upstream #community

2 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 31 '23

Https Session Authentication in asp.net Core

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

2 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 31 '23

Types of Entities in Entity Framework

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 30 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #158

#opensource #aws

19 min read

abhii

May 31 '23

How to get started with K8s contributions

#kubernetes #beginners #opensource

7 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 31 '23

POCO Entities (Plain Old CLR Object)

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 31 '23

Persistence in Entity Framework

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

4 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 31 '23

What is an entity in the Entity Framework with Examples?

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 31 '23

Dynamic Proxy Entities (POCO Proxy)

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 31 '23

Entity State in Entity Framework

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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