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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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 18 '24

Getting started with Valkey and Finch

#opensource

3 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Upsun

Jul 18 '24

Chmodcast 105: Just in the Nix of time with Pol Dellaiera

#webdev #programming #opensource #learning

1 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Upsun

Jul 18 '24

Chmodcast 101: WTFM : Write that funky manual with Ryan Weaver

#webdev #programming #opensource #learning

1 min read

Jul 18 '24

Step-by-Step Instructions to Create an Expense Tracker

#javascript #beginners #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Upsun

Jul 18 '24

Chmodcast 103: Community is built through happy accidents with Aisha Bello and Leona So

#webdev #programming #opensource #learning

1 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Upsun

Jul 18 '24

Chmodcast 102: COUNT your blessings (and check your indexes) with Lætitia Avrot

#webdev #programming #opensource #learning

1 min read

Jul 18 '24

INTRODUCING ZEMPOSTS

#webdev #opensource #astro #react

2 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Upsun

Jul 18 '24

Chmodcast 104: The floor is Lava(Moat) with Zbyszek Tenerowicz

#webdev #programming #opensource #learning

1 min read

Paulo Victor Leite Lima Gomes

Jul 18 '24

Why are working agreements crucial in engineering teams?

#team #teamwork #agile #opensource

4 min read

Alesia S.

Jul 18 '24

Best 10+ Open Source CRM Systems

#opensource #webdev #crm #programming

12 min read

Jun 18 '24

Develop a consciousness of internal quality to maintain our productivity

#opensource #codequality

2 min read

lotyp

Jul 17 '24

Laravel Config Problem: Is It Time for a Revolution?

#laravel #php #dx #opensource

20 min read

Jul 18 '24

Apache Doris Job Scheduler for Task Automation

#database #dataengineering #programming #opensource

6 min read

Jun 27 '24

Kubernetes Pod 101

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

D10

Jun 27 '24

Suggestions for Contributing to Open Source

#opensource #javascript #python #go

1 min read

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