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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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May 13 '23

Introducing Caliex: The Ultimate CLI Tool for Github Repository Management

#githubhack23 #github #opensource #githubactions

3 min read

Stefan Sundin for AWS Community Builders

Apr 23 '23

Comparing shrimp to the AWS CLI

#aws #s3 #opensource

3 min read

May 2 '23

Journey to the Fastest Streaming JSON Decoder In Go

#showdev #opensource #go #performance

6 min read

May 13 '23

Where did the name libpurple come from?

#opensource #history #storytime #repost

3 min read

May 13 '23

#GitHubHack23: React Native Versioning Pipeline

#githubhack23 #reactnative #cicd #opensource

3 min read

Adrian Brown for Apollo

May 11 '23

How we reduced our review time by 90%

#opensource #webdev #python #ai

2 min read

eylonmiz

May 12 '23

open-source React GPT LLM Agent

#webdev #react #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

May 12 '23

Recommender Systems with Graph Databases like Apache AGE

#postgres #opensource #database #ai

3 min read

May 13 '23

Como colaborar em projetos no GitHub: um guia para iniciantes

#github #tutorial #beginners #opensource

11 min read

May 12 '23

FOSSY '23 CfP Open

#opensource #arm64 #aarch64 #conference

1 min read

May 12 '23

Medusa(1/4) - The future of e-commerce?

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 8 '23

Open Source Terminology 101: A Primer for New Contributors

#opensource #webdev #github #codenewbie

4 min read

May 12 '23

Medusa (2/4): Vision, History, and Product

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

4 min read

May 12 '23

Medusa (3/4): Commerce Modules and Features

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

4 min read

sourav

May 8 '23

HEY! Everyone let me know which is your core language😘.

#discuss #programming #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

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