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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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Apr 30 '23

Do you want to publish your own npm package ?

#npm #javascript #node #opensource

2 min read

May 30 '23

Introducing Myself on the First Day of My Outreachy Internship in the Bioconductor Community

#outreachy #bioconductor #opensource #openscience

2 min read

Christine Belzie

May 29 '23

4 Tips to Transition from Contributorhood to Maintainership

#opensource #community #devjournal

5 min read

Dmitriy A. for Globalping

May 29 '23

Globalping goes live! A community-powered global network testing platform

#devops #networking #opensource

4 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Apr 25 '23

FLaNK Stack Weekly for 24April2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

5 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 29 '23

Introduction to JSON Serialization in ASP.NET Core Web API

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

2 min read

May 29 '23

ChatCMD: The AI-Powered CLI Command Lookup Tool

#python #cli #opensource #linux

2 min read

Pricilla Bilavendran for TestMu AI

May 29 '23

Global Accessibility Awareness Day: What You Should Know About It and Why It Matters

#discuss #programming #opensource #news

10 min read

May 29 '23

Outreachy Blog #1: Introduce Yourself

#outreachy #ocaml #internship #opensource

2 min read

Vladimir Mihailenco for Uptrace

May 29 '23

Monitoring CPU/RAM/disk metrics with OpenTelemetry and Uptrace

#monitoring #opensource #devops #development

4 min read

May 8 '23

UIs visually, backend in Python

#python #vue #indie #opensource

1 min read

Eduard Krivanek for Bitovi

May 28 '23

Collection of Vue Macros in Vue.js 3.3

#webdev #vue #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

May 25 '23

Entenda os tipos de licença open source e saiba qual usar nos seus projetos

#braziliandevs #githubbrasil #opensource #github

5 min read

Nikhil

May 28 '23

OSS projects and Non-profit 501(c)(3) vs Non-profit 501(c)(6)

#opensource #community

7 min read

May 28 '23

Open-Source Admin Dashboard Template Based on Tailwind CSS

#opensource #tailwindcss #css

1 min read

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