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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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Stefan

Jan 31

Recreating Nike - Medusa & Next.js

#nextjs #opensource #programming #javascript

9 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Jan 31

5 Rules That Most B2B Shops Miss in Their Product Categorization

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

8 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 31

Getting hands on with Sigstore Cosign on AWS

#opensource #aws

12 min read

kwnaidoo

Jan 31

PHP Scraper + Python fasttext model

#php #python #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Jan 31

Need another side project idea?

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Jan 31

Why Using GitHub Pages is a Great Idea

#opensource #github #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

Jan 31

US government agencies' opensource projects

#osdc #opensource #perl

1 min read

Jan 31

7 Open-Source Log Management Tools that you may consider in 2023

#logs #opensource #sre #management

8 min read

Hao Chen

Jan 29

Using Pivot Chart to Replace Your Pivot Table

#javascript #opensource #react #datascience

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Jan 30

FLiP Stack Weekly 28 Jan 2023

#apachepulsar #opensource #apacheflink #apachenifi

4 min read

Jan 29

SSH Key Pair

#osdc #opensource #ssh

1 min read

Jan 28

Hactoberfest Swags

#hacktoberfest #opensource #swags

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

Flatlogic

Jan 30

🔥Top Angular Open Source Projects 💻

#angular #webdev #opensource #flatlogic

2 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