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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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Pradumna Saraf for Livecycle

Feb 7

How to collaborate better with your team on Localhost

#development #productivity #docker #opensource

4 min read

RisingWave Labs

Feb 6

Highlights of RisingWave v1.6: The Open-Source Distributed SQL Streaming Database

#database #opensource #productivity #datascience

7 min read

Jing

Feb 6

Try AREX for Shadow Testing with Zero Test Case Writing

#showdev #devops #opensource

5 min read

Josef Andersson

Feb 5

FOSDEM 2024 - Summary and Reflections

#fosdem #sbom #cra #opensource

8 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 6

Development Tools and Platforms: Create your Dev.to + Pipedream Automation in under 20 minutes

#automation #opensource

4 min read

Nik L. for SuprSend

Feb 5

What is toast notification? Implement react native toast message

#reactnative #react #opensource

3 min read

Feb 5

Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained — Part 1.14

#javascript #webdev #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

Kseniya Fedoruk for ONLYOFFICE

Feb 5

ONLYOFFICE Docs 8.0 for developers: PDF forms, bidirectional text, API & Doc Builder updates, and more

#onlyoffice #update #opensource #api

4 min read

Feb 6

a solution to contributors creating multiple issues in open source - need feedback 🤞

#discuss #github #githubactions #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 5

Development Tools and Platforms: A Closer Look at API Testing with Hoppscotch

#opensource #beginners #api #testing

4 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Feb 3

Taking an Open Source Project to Release 1.1 🚀

#webdev #react #openai #opensource

7 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 3

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 65)

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Feb 3

Exploring OAuth 2.0: Enabling Google Authentication in a Pure Browser-Based Web App (1)

#opensource #webdev #programming #react

3 min read

Kathy

Feb 5

Creating a Date Range Picker with Phoenix LiveView

#elixir #liveview #opensource #phoenix

16 min read