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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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May 9

New Meteor.js 2.12 and Blaze 2.6.2 Release

#javascript #meteorjs #node #opensource

2 min read

Anne McCormick for Emerging Tech Community

May 9

How to Get Started with Open Source

#opensource #beginners #learning

17 min read

May 9

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#architecture #opensource #pidgin #repost

3 min read

sachinM

May 9

Revolutionize Your Development Skills: Top GitHub Repositories You Can't Afford to Miss

#github #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

May 7

How Open Source Enabled Kubernetes’ Success

#opensource #kubernetes #google #microsoft

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 8

AWS open source newsletter, #156

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Marko Stanimirović for NgRx

May 9

Announcing NgRx v16: Integration with Angular Signals, Functional Effects, Standalone Schematics, and more!

#ngrx #angular #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

May 8

Introduction to Graph Databases

#opensource #database #postgres

3 min read

May 6

Building and Running Pidgin and Finch 3

#pidgin #finch #opensource #repost

5 min read

Shai Almog

May 9

Java String Templates Today

#java #tutorial #opensource #coding

7 min read

May 8

Auth.Tesla.com's Vulnerability Leads To Account Takeover of Internal Tesla Accounts

#cybersecurity #infosec #informationsecurity #opensource

4 min read

Retiago Drago 🇮🇩🇵🇸

May 9

Quick Start Guide to Amundsen Demo 🚀

#beginners #tutorial #datascience #opensource

6 min read