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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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Abhishek Somani

Mar 5

Style your terminals using Go-Palette 🎨

#opensource #go #github #programming

4 min read

JS for ZenStack

Mar 5

How to find users for open source project with no resources and connections

#opensource #startup #webdev #community

7 min read

Mar 5

The Unsung Heroes of Open Source: The Dedicated Maintainers Behind Lesser-Known Projects

#opensource #github #programming #computerscience

7 min read

Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Mar 2

Join Postman for Google Summer of Code

#api #beginners #opensource #postman

2 min read

Mar 5

From a Dumb Student to a PyTorch Contributor: The Impact of Teachers on My Life⚡

#beginners #machinelearning #opensource #deeplearning

6 min read

Mar 5

Unique Git Commands You Should Know!

#opensource #git #github

2 min read

Archer Allstars

Mar 5

Beyond zRAM, using a swap file as a last resort before going to OOM on openSUSE

#linux #opensource #productivity #beginners

4 min read

Stanislav Silin

Feb 28

ZeroQL V3 - C# friendly GraphQL client

#csharp #graphql #webdev #opensource

3 min read

van

Feb 28

audioFlux: A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction.

#python #opensource #c

2 min read

JF Melo

Mar 4

7 Best Ways You Can Contribute to Open-Source Projects

#github #git #opensource #design

2 min read

Fernando

Mar 2

Background jobs for Kemal server in Crystal lang

#crystal #docker #opensource #programming

5 min read

Mar 2

Build your own Tana clone with this new frontend

#showdev #opensource #frontend #javascript

1 min read

teddav

Mar 2

Foundry: open source contribution

#ethereum #solidity #rust #opensource

5 min read

Lyn Muldrow for Tidelift

Mar 2

Five minute maintainers: Meet Felix Böhm 👋🏾

#programming #opensource #devops #javascript

1 min read

Mar 2

Introducing Procedural Generation For My Game

#news #algorithms #programming #opensource

2 min read

Aviv Mor for krud.dev

Mar 2

Strategy Design Pattern with Spring Boot + Kotlin - Cleaner code with no boilerplate

#opensource #architecture #oop #spring

4 min read

adriens

Feb 27

🤔 Rétrospective sur 6️⃣ années de (Data) Citizen Developer 🏙️

#showdev #openddata #opensource #api

7 min read

Sriram Ramkrishna for oneAPI Community

Feb 28

Modern Software Development Tools and oneAPI Part 3

#sycl #oneapi #opensource #tips

10 min read

Rohit

Feb 23

Discover the Magic of Object-Oriented Programming: A Beginner's Guide to OOP Mastery

#programming #opensource

7 min read

DASWU

Feb 24

How JuiceFS Accelerates Edge Rendering Performance in Volcengine

#opensource #cloud

7 min read

Gun

Feb 20

Fixing Your Software Documentation Problem in 2023

#documentation #opensource #docz #userguide

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 20

AWS open source newsletter, #145

#opensource #aws

22 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Feb 20

My Journey in Open Source - retry-catch

#javascript #typescript #github #opensource

3 min read

Tykok

Feb 24

Chinese npm package 汉译英

#todayilearned #npm #typescript #opensource

3 min read

TD

Feb 21

OSD700: Unit Tests & Code Reviews

#opensource #typescript #testing

1 min read

Maciej Swiderski

Feb 24

Apache Camel or workflows or both?

#java #apachecamel #workflow #opensource

5 min read

Yasunori Kirimoto