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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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Divyansh Singh for OpenSauced

Aug 2

How Open Source helped me get into the GitHub Octernships program.

#opensource #github #career #beginners

7 min read

Wonuola

Jul 29

Still confused on how to get started in open source?

#webdev #beginners #opensource #programming

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Aug 1

Open-source chart components built with Tailwind CSS, Flowbite and ApexCharts

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial #webdev

6 min read

Jul 27

Playwright HTML Report

#playwright #html #opensource #testing

2 min read

Jenish MS

Jul 28

How to Implement Resumable File Uploads toAzure Blob Storage in Flutter

#flutter #android #ios #opensource

2 min read

ByoungWook Park for Dogu Technologies

Jul 28

Are you tired of connecting your android device every time? Then build your own DeviceFarm🏭.

#opensource #testing #automation #productivity

2 min read

Jul 26

Is it legal to scrape websites? The Law and Myths of Web Scraping

#webdev #webscraping #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jul 24

Guide to Generating SSL Certificates Using OpenSSL for Web Applications

#opensource #tutorial #devops #security

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 28

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 52)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Gianluca

Jul 25

Securely Managing, Distributing, and Scaling Secrets Across Multiple Kubernetes Clusters

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #security

3 min read

Chinwenma

Jul 28

Conquering Impostor Syndrome in Tech: The Power of Open Source

#100daysofoss #opensource #javascript #collaboration

2 min read

Birk Jernström

Jul 24

I'm pledging $30K to open source. Which efforts need support?

#opensource

1 min read

Jul 24

Replacing Apache Hive, Elasticsearch, and PostgreSQL With Apache Doris

#datascience #database #programming #opensource

5 min read

Jul 24

What is Truthy and Falsy in Javascript ?

#javascript #tutorial #opensource #programming

1 min read

gao-sun for Logto

Jul 26

Logto Cloud is officially launched!

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

1 min read

Apostrophe

Jul 26

How AI Is Transforming the CMS Industry

#tutorial #opensource #ai #webdev

8 min read

Ethosa

Jul 22

Writing Modern Web Applications In Nim

#webdev #beginners #opensource #nim

2 min read

Jul 25

The Force Awakens: A Jedi's Guide to Developing Postgres Extensions in C

#postgres #opensource #agensql #clanguage

3 min read

Márk Sági-Kazár

Jul 24

How to become an Open Source Software contributor?

#opensource

16 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 1

Open Source ABCs: Collaboration

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Jul 24

Mastering Git Commit Messages: Best Practices and Markdown Usage

#github #development #programming #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 31

Keeping Your Branch Up to Date and Handling Merge Conflicts While Waiting for PR Reviews

#opensource #github #beginners #git

5 min read

Vaunt

Aug 1

Looking Behind the Source Code

#beginners #opensource #devrel #community

10 min read

Christina Garofalo for Plank

Jul 31

My Favourite WordPress Plugins as a Developer

#wordpress #beginners #opensource