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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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Eric

May 23

Everything you need to know about algorithms

#programming #beginners #opensource #codenewbie

5 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

May 22

FLaNK Stack Weekly for 22 May 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apachefl #opensource

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 22

AWS open source newsletter, #157

#opensource #aws

18 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

May 22

How to host your side-projects for free in 2023: from Auth to Database

#opensource #webdev #devops #productivity

6 min read

May 22

[Nestia] Make NestJS 30x faster with fastify

#typescript #nestjs #opensource #fastify

7 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 22

What happens after you submit a PR to an Open Source Project?

#opensource #webdev #github #codenewbie

6 min read

John Rush

May 21

DevHunt: A Collaborative Haven for Launching Dev Tools

#showdev #opensource #developers #startup

2 min read

May 22

The risk of Open Source vs. proprietary 3rd party libraries

#discuss #opensource #programming #business

2 min read

Vinicius Koji Enari

May 20

Maintaining a Python Package with GitHub Actions

#githubhack23 #python #github #opensource

2 min read

peter279k

May 15

Integrating the GitHub action to make yt-dlp-api tests automated!

#showdev #githubhack23 #github #opensource

2 min read

ADAMU MUHAMMAD MUHAMMAD

May 19

Geek ink Empowering Tech Enthusiasts

#githubhack23 #opensource #onprogress

3 min read

May 21

OpenCommit: GitHub Action to improve commits with meaningful messages on every `git push` 🤯🔫

#githubhack23 #opensource #githubactions #git

5 min read

Fabian Reinders

May 18

Running Nextcloud using Docker and Traefik 3

#tutorial #docker #opensource #devops

6 min read

Caitlin Bixby for Tidelift

May 18

Maintainers want to do creative work that matters and makes an impact

#opensource #maintainers #tidelift #tidelift2023survey

2 min read

May 14

🔥 600+ 🌟 and 140+ Forks to J.A.R.V.I.S 🚀, Added Dynamic Face Recognition to J.A.R.V.I.S 🤖

#opensource #ai #python #github

1 min read

pragyanandasaho

May 17

Introducing Rs Curry: A very easy and simple Blog platform for youtuber's and kitchen master's .

#githubhack23 #django #githubactions #opensource

2 min read

Cameron Archer for Tinybird

May 17

A FOSS mock data generator for your next data project

#data #analytics #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Luis Villa

May 16

Announcing the Upstream podcast

#podcast #opensource #tidelift

3 min read

Idan Elhalwani for krud.dev

May 16

Introducing Ostara

#spring #devops #java #opensource

4 min read

May 16

Toasts in vanilla 😋-Toaster Ui

#discuss #javascript #opensource #githubhack23

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

May 15

Medusa Community Highlights: Strapi Integration, SES Plugin, and More!

#opensource #programming #javascript #webdev

3 min read