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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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Marija N. for Microtica

Jan 16

7 open source projects worth the hype in 2023

#opensource #microtica #community

6 min read

Marija N. for Medusa

Jan 16

Deploy a Medusa Server on AWS with Microtica

#opensource #webdev #javascript #aws

5 min read

Jan 16

Top 5+ Best Free ReactJS Admin Dashboard Templates for 2023

#webdev #opensource #react #javascript

3 min read

L2ncE

Jan 16

Hertz supports HTTP3 Interpretation of v0.5.0 version

#go #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 16

AWS open source newsletter, #141

#opensource #aws

13 min read

mrcflorian

Jan 14

How To Leverage React Native Templates Effectively

#reactnative #react #templates #opensource

3 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Jan 12

Medusa v1.7.3: Sales Channels out of Beta, Improvements to events, and more!

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

4 min read

Jonathan Reimer for crowd.dev

Jan 12

Discover useful insights about any GitHub repo

#github #opensource #analytics

1 min read

Jan 12

Redis: What It Is, What It Does, and Why You Should Care

#redis #webdev #opensource #database

10 min read

Allen Helton for AWS Heroes

Jan 11

How I Built An Open Source Serverless Newsletter Platform

#serverless #blogging #opensource

8 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 9

Running KubernetesPodOperator Tasks in different AWS accounts

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Leonardo Montini for This is Learning

Jan 5

My GitHub Contribution History (2014-2023)

#github #career #opensource

2 min read

Jan 2

Getting started with open source contributions in 5 steps

#beginners #opensource #programming

4 min read

Jan 4

Chess A.I. alogrithm

#machinelearning #algorithms #programming #opensource

10 min read

Harinder Seera 🇭🇲 for AWS Community Builders

Jan 4

AWS CloudWatch Dashboard Builder - Namespace Template

#aws #opensource #monitoring #productivity

2 min read

Jan 12

The framework that revolutionized my workflow.

#webdev #opensource #productivity #typescript

3 min read

Vijay

Jan 12

Analysing Github Stars - Extracting and analyzing data from Github using Apache NiFi®, Apache Kafka® and Apache Druid®

#opensource #github #database #sql

9 min read

Jan 11

How I archived 100 million PDF documents... (Part 1)

#showdev #devjournal #opensource #discuss

5 min read

LABOUARDY Mohamed for Tailwarden

Jan 11

Komiser vs AWS Resource Explorer

#aws #cloud #opensource #github

5 min read

DMetaSoul

Dec 28 '22

Open Source first Anniversary Star 1.2K! Review on the anniversary of LakeSoul, the unique open-source Lakehouse

#database #datascience #programming #opensource

6 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Dec 28 '22

Year 2022 Streaming Wrap-Up

#apachepulsar #opensource #apacheflink #apachenifi

32 min read

Dec 26 '22

Badger, or how to make things easier

#markdown #github #opensource #python

1 min read

Albina Starykova

Jan 9

What to expect from your first weeks as a software development intern

#webdev #beginners #opensource

3 min read