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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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Heapstack

Feb 5 '24

FOSDEM 2024 - Summary and Reflections

#fosdem #sbom #cra #opensource

8 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 1 '24

Game Development and Multimedia: Godot Engine, A Game-Changer in Game Development

#opensource #godot #gamedev #gaming

5 min read

Abdurrahman Rajab

Feb 5 '24

Coding a chrome extension in 11 hours!

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

11 min read

Edi🦕

Jan 2 '24

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL V2.3

#postgis #kuberentes #opensource #database

2 min read

Kseniya Fedoruk for ONLYOFFICE

Feb 5 '24

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

#onlyoffice #update #opensource #api

4 min read

Marine for Taipy

Jan 31 '24

Specialized Python libraries for Unique Tasks

#python #productivity #opensource #programming

3 min read

Alexandre Marques

Feb 5 '24

Simplify type-safe configuration from multiple sources with zod-config

#zod #typescript #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Antonello Zanini for Apostrophe

Feb 16 '24

How to Build an Ecommerce Website with ApostropheCMS

#webdev #tutorial #devops #opensource

11 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 3 '24

Game Development and Multimedia: Audacity, the Sound of Creativity

#opensource #audio #podcast

4 min read

Nucu Labs

Feb 4 '24

My experience with BambuLab A1 and 3D printing

#3dprinter #opensource #engineering

3 min read

hatim oura

Feb 4 '24

My First Impressions of Odin Programming Language for Game Development

#gamedev #odin #programming #opensource

2 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Jan 30 '24

Coexistence of containers and Helm charts - OCI based registries

#devops #opensource #kubernetes #docker

8 min read

TThroo-Dev

Jan 5 '24

JSONCrack Codebase Analysis - Part 4.1 - Editor - Panes Component

#webdev #javascript #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

Adam Matthiesen

Feb 4 '24

Astro and GhostCMS

#astro #ghostcms #opensource

4 min read

Feb 7 '24

GitHub Status Checks and Branch Protection Made Easy

#github #opensource #node

4 min read

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