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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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Jan 28

Received 2022 Top Authors Gift from DEV.TO

#community #programming #opensource #gift

2 min read

Yifan Ai

Jan 28

React Carousel Component "with Batteries Included"

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

4 min read

Jan 28

Hactoberfest Swags

#hacktoberfest #opensource #swags

1 min read

Jan 28

[Nestia] 15,000x faster validators and tRPC (SDK) for NestJS

#programming #typescript #opensource #javascript

7 min read

Dream.Chayutpong

Jan 28

I created a website for nature sounds to help you focus, sleep, relax and relieve stress.

#showdev #webdev #github #opensource

1 min read

Jan 27

How working/install Pig with Notebooks?

#bigdata #datascience #opensource #analytics

4 min read

Jan 28

Finding missing data in your database with QuestDB

#tutorial #database #questdb #opensource

7 min read

Alexey Timin for ReductStore

Jan 26

ReductStore v1.3.0 Released!

#news #database #opensource #reductstore

2 min read

Rodrigo M.S. for Quine

Jan 27

Understanding open source communities with Quine

#tutorial #github #opensource #startup

3 min read

Mustafif

Jan 26

The Happenings with TexCreate v3

#news #programming #rust #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 26

Configuring the KubernetesPodOperator on Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) - non OIDC Amazon EKS Clusters

#opensource #aws

7 min read

Jan 26

Make a Final Term Calculator

#svelte #javascript #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

MiguelMJ

Jan 26

Programming mathematical objects

#mathematics #opensource #distributedsystems

9 min read

Adewale Abati for CodeSandbox

Jan 27

Your Open Source Project needs CodeSandbox - Here’s why

#opensource #development

2 min read

Vladimir Novick

Jan 27

Performance Regression Testing for React Native

#performance #reactnative #opensource

12 min read

Jan 23

You should use the OpenSSF Scorecard

#security #node #opensource

3 min read

did

Jan 27

Loading environment values into go Structs

#library #go #opensource

2 min read

lokzy

Jan 23

CROSS-SITE REQUEST FORGERY

#beginners #opensource #testing #computerscience

4 min read

jonasbn

Jan 22

Forks of Forks

#opensource #github #contribution

7 min read

ViperT

Jan 26

SuperJSONatural -> Faster & binary serialization!

#javascript #opensource #algorithms #performance

2 min read

Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Jan 24

The Progress on Postman's Open Source Program Office (OSPO)

#showdev #opensource #api #postman

3 min read

NJOKU SAMSON EBERE

Jan 23

Introduction To Apache APISIX

#beginners #opensource #webdev #programming

2 min read

Benjamin Bryant

Jan 19

Building Communities - Women in Cloud Native

#community #learning #cloud #opensource

6 min read

Srinivas Kandukuri

Jan 21

Top 5 Featured DEV Tag(#opensource) Posts from the Past Week

#opensource #c4r4x35

1 min read

Jan 21

Contribute on Open Source Projects as a Beginner

#opensource #beginners

2 min read