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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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awalias for Supabase

May 10

Supabase Beta April 2023

#supabase #opensource #database

4 min read

Pachi 🪐 (she/her/ela) for GitHub

May 10

Participe do do Hackathon GitHub + DEV 2023

#braziliandevs #githubbrasil #github #opensource

6 min read

Meteor.js

May 9

New Meteor.js 2.12 and Blaze 2.6.2 Release

#javascript #meteorjs #node #opensource

2 min read

May 9

Pidgin's Architecture

#architecture #opensource #pidgin #repost

3 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

May 7

How Open Source Enabled Kubernetes’ Success

#opensource #kubernetes #google #microsoft

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 10

How to Write a Good Issue: Tips for Effective Communication in Open Source

#opensource #webdev #github #codenewbie

4 min read

Andrea Liliana Griffiths for GitHub

May 10

Cómo crear y administrar una organización en GitHub

#github #spanish #productivity #opensource

4 min read

May 6

Building and Running Pidgin and Finch 3

#pidgin #finch #opensource #repost

5 min read

Michael Di Prisco

May 10

Our Journey In The Open Source World - performance-logger

#javascript #typescript #github #opensource

2 min read

Shai Almog

May 9

Java String Templates Today

#java #tutorial #opensource #coding

7 min read

Anne McCormick for Emerging Tech Community

May 9

How to Get Started with Open Source

#opensource #beginners #learning

17 min read

May 8

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

#cybersecurity #infosec #informationsecurity #opensource

4 min read

Mage

May 5

Apache Flink episode 1: A comprehensive introduction

#dataengineering #apacheflink #data #opensource

6 min read

JerryMaoMao for ILLA Cloud

May 8

Top 7 Redis GUI Tools in 2023

#illa #gui #redis #opensource

17 min read

May 8

My Journey to GSoC'2023

#gsoc #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Josefine Schfr for Storyblok

May 3

Cracking the Code: An Inspiring Discussion on Open Source with Ana at Girl Code Coffee Chat #8

#girlcode #opensource #webdev #codenewbie

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 1

AWS open source newsletter, #155

#opensource #aws

18 min read

May 4

Want to be able to drag files into a web app? Got ya covered.

#showdev #javascript #opensource #ux

2 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

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 8

Open Source Terminology 101: A Primer for New Contributors

#opensource #webdev #github #codenewbie

4 min read

May 1

Um servidor DNS Recursivo rápido, seguro e escalável

#unbound #dns #opensource #security

7 min read

Cameron Archer for Tinybird

May 1

Real-time databases: what developers need to know

#database #mongodb