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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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Brian G.

Feb 28 '24

Code Review Best Practices for Junior Developers

#beginners #codenewbie #opensource

6 min read

Thomas Hansen for AINIRO.IO

Feb 22 '24

No more Mr. Open Source Guy

#opensource

4 min read

Feb 17 '24

Exploring OAuth 2.0: Enabling Google Authentication in a Pure Browser-Based Web App running on Cloudflare

#javascript #opensource #cloudflare #webapp

3 min read

Feb 27 '24

Lessons from opensource: How to use pipeline in Nodejs?

#javascript #webdev #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

Mohammad Arab Anvari

Feb 27 '24

Empowering Your Kafka Connectors: A Guide to Connector Guardian

#kafkaconnect #python #opensource #devops

3 min read

Adriana Villela

Feb 26 '24

OpenTelemetry Collector Anti-Patterns

#observability #opensource #opentelemetry #sitereliabilityengineering

6 min read

Abraxas3d

Feb 27 '24

Open Source Minimum Shift Keying Progress

#opensource #fpga

1 min read

Ruth Cheesley for Mautic

Feb 27 '24

Google Summer of Code 2024: Mautic Joins as Mentoring Organization

#opensource #gsoc #summerofcode #mautic

3 min read

Feb 27 '24

Why Janus is Digital Samba's Top Choice for SFU?

#janus #sfu #opensource #api

8 min read

Ruth Cheesley for Mautic

Feb 27 '24

Dropsolid becomes a Diamond Tier member of Mautic with an annual commitment of $30,000

#mautic #opensource #dropsolid #marketingautomation

2 min read

Ruth Cheesley for Mautic

Feb 27 '24

Mautic recognized as a Digital Public Good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance

#mautic #dpga #digitalpublicgood #opensource

2 min read

Ryan Feigenbaum for GrowthBook

Sep 16 '24

Code References

#featureflags #abtesting #experimentation #opensource

3 min read

DASWU

Jan 24 '24

An AI Robotics Company Chose JuiceFS over Alluxio to Tackle Object Storage Drawbacks

#ai #opensource

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 26 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #190

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Nathan Tarbert for Winglang

Feb 13 '24

5 Ways to Skin a Lambda Function: A DevTools Comparison Guide

#webdev #programming #opensource #cloud

8 min read

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