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Open Source

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.

submission guidelines

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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Jul 19

A Look at Selenium and Its Alternative Solution for 2021 and Beyond

#opensource #testing #testdev

4 min read

Stephen for Knock

Jul 20

Loan Calculator Library

#opensource #node

2 min read

Jul 14

Update from old Java version to OpenJDK 16 windows

#java #opensource #windows #tutorial

1 min read

Damodar Lohani for Appwrite

Jul 15

New Gravity Support in Image Previews | Appwrite

#opensource #webdev #flutter #android

2 min read

Jul 14

How to Make an Open Source Github Contribution

#github #beginners #opensource #codenewbie

4 min read

Jul 23

OpenTelemetry: A Way to Achieve Observability

#opensource #opentelemetry #visibility #metrics

5 min read

Spoorti-Kotrashetti

Jul 23

My Role in the Project: part-1.1

#python #java #middleware #opensource

2 min read