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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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Travis

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Side Hustle Ideas for Developers in 2024

#webdev #opensource #learning #tutorial

3 min read

Xuân Hoài Tống

May 19

All about OpenNotas - What is it?

#opennotas #opensource #notetalking

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Sn3llius

May 19

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#python #datascience #opensource

3 min read

May 18

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#php #opensource #codequality

3 min read

Rafie A4

May 18

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Amar Singh

May 18

Is it Worth if I Develop a WHMCS Admin Hybrid App in React and Laravel?

#programming #react #productivity #opensource

1 min read

May 17

Introduction to Testing in Node.js

#testing #opensource #unittest #node

5 min read

Claradev32

May 18

Advanced Topics in E2E Testing Introduction

#webdev #testing #testdev #opensource

5 min read

Ekekenta Odionyenfe Clinton

May 18

Testing Node.js Applications with Real-world Examples

#opensource #testing #unittest

4 min read

Claradev32

May 18

Integration Testing with Node.js

#webdev #typescript #integrationtest #opensource

6 min read

Celeste van der Watt for upsun

May 17

Level up[sun] your Symfony skills ✨

#php #webdev #devops #opensource

2 min read

May 17

Workbench for Apache NiFi data flows

#opensource #testing #cleancode #datascience

7 min read

Answer.dev

May 17

Apply for Apache Answer’s Project at OSPP 2024

#opensource #apache #student #go

3 min read

Harry

May 17

Best Practices for Adopting Open-Source Software in 2024

#webdev #opensource #productivity

10 min read

May 16

How I fixed this Next.js error: Refused to load the script because it violate Content Security Policy directive

#javascript #nextjs #react #opensource

4 min read

yogini16

May 16

Opinionated Architecture: Simple Guide for Beginners

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

2 min read

May 16

Processing Foundation 2024 Software Development Grant (pr05): 'New Beginnings' Open Call

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Palomino for Logto

May 16

Logto product update: Compliance status, custom JWT, API resources for organization roles, and more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

DASWU

May 17

Data Sync in JuiceFS 1.2: Enhanced Selective Sync and Performance Optimizations

#opensource

5 min read

May 16

Indie Hacker, faça você mesmo #1 - Use o Github Actions pra fazer os code reviews automaticamente

#indiehacker #buildinpublic #opensource

4 min read

Alanna Burke for Lagoon

May 15

LagoonCon Portland 2024 Recap

#lagooncon #event #opensource

11 min read