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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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Fernando

Feb 14

Learning Crystal with Battlesnake

#crystal #opensource #api

5 min read

Iniubong LA for Medusa

Feb 14

12 Tips for Optimal Ecommerce SEO

#opensource #webdev #javascript #programming

9 min read

Rodrigo M.S. for Quine

Feb 14

Trending Rust repos of the week 📈

#news #github #opensource #rust

3 min read

Medea

Feb 14

Open source or not?

#help #webdev #opensource #discuss

1 min read

Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Feb 14

Writing an Open Source Policy

#opensource #tutorial #postman #career

4 min read

Alohe

Feb 14

Made with love

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Feb 13

FLiP Stack Weekly for 13-Feb-2023

#apachepulsar #apacheflink #apachenifi #opensource

4 min read

Robert Sayakhov

Feb 13

Walle - CLI Crypto Wallet for Ethereum like networks

#showdev #javascript #opensource #blockchain

1 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Feb 14

Our Journey In The Open Source World - object-loudifier

#javascript #typescript #opensource #github

3 min read

Ali Ahmed

Feb 12

Z-Library Gets Taken Down by US Authorities, But why?

#webdev #ebook #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Rasheed K Mozaffar

Feb 10

Meet Navio !

#css #webdev #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Teja Kummarikuntla for ToolJet

Feb 10

Use ChatGPT API to build a README generator app with low-code

#chatgpt #openai #lowcode #opensource

6 min read

adriens for opt-nc

Feb 13

♾️ Efficient stack management with eol on GitHub 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

#github #opensource #security #productivity

1 min read

Feb 13

Construindo uma pipeline com o Github Actions

#tutorial #opensource #githubactions #braziliandevs

5 min read

Feb 13

What I learned about leading a healthy project from speaking to 50+ maintainers

#opensource #contributorswanted #fosdem #community

13 min read

Jakub Andrzejewski

Feb 13

My experiences with Ambassador programs

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

2 min read

Ivan

Feb 11

Shaka Player for media playback - implementation, use cases, pros and cons

#webdev #javascript #opensource #video

9 min read

Atulpriya Sharma

Feb 7

Solving Challenges of Kubernetes YAML Manifest using Monokle

#kubernetes #cloudnative #devops #opensource

3 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Feb 6

FLiP Stack Weekly for 06 February 2023

#apachepulsar #opensource #apachenifi #beginners

5 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Feb 6

Our Journey In The Open Source World - cache-candidate-plugin-dependency-keys

#javascript #opensource #typescript #github

2 min read

SelectDB

Feb 7

"Features of Data Lake Federated Analysis"_Apache Doris Summit 2022

#database #bigdata #datalake #opensource

1 min read

Feb 9

Introducing Escape the Wave. My Exciting New Game!

#showdev #programming #gamedev #opensource

2 min read

Lorain

Feb 8

DREAMEMO: An out-of-the-box, high-scalability, modular-design distributed cache

#webdev #programming #opensource #go