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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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Sm0ke

Mar 15

Soft Dashboard Laravel - Free Template

#laravel #dashboards #opensource

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Mar 15

Create Your Open Source Ecommerce Store using Medusa and Next.js

#javascript #webdev #opensource #node

2 min read

Abhimanyu Selvan

Mar 15

How we leveraged nip.io and custom CA for Otomi

#dns #kubernetes #testing #opensource

4 min read

qazmkop

Mar 15

A new unified streaming and batch table storage solution similar to iceberg/hudi/delta lake

#programming #opensource #database #spark

2 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Mar 15

How to efficiently manage software updates across the network of your multiple boards?

#embeddedsystems #electronics #devtool #opensource

1 min read

Nathan

Mar 14

ZAP Add-Ons: The First Step

#java #opensource #apisecurit #cybersecurity

2 min read

Deepankar Bhade

Mar 14

My Open Source Journey

#opensource #programming #webdev

5 min read

Mar 15

Creating a registration form with Magic 1 of 2

#webdev #opensource #lowcode

7 min read

Mar 11

Finding Joy While Losing Use of My Hands

#a11y #opensource #productivity #talonvoice

4 min read

Kevan Y

Mar 15

Telescope 2.8 release

#opensource

4 min read

Hans Otto Wirtz

Mar 14

Generating sloping 3D models from Chinese characters

#python #openscad #3dprinting #opensource

13 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Mar 14

Get Started: Build, flash, run and control your very first Luos project

#embeddedsystems #devtools #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Mar 14

CRUD automation and Low-Code

#lowcode #automation #crud #opensource

4 min read

🇺🇦Timothy Spann🇺🇦

Mar 14

Streaming March 14, 2022

#opensource #python #streaming #apachepulsar

1 min read

Gerardo Enrique Arriaga Rendon

Mar 14

A little bit of an update...

#telescope #opensource #osd700

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 14

AWS open source news and updates, #104

#opensource #aws

16 min read

Rob

Mar 14

aiowmi - A Python WMI library

#python #wmi #windows #opensource