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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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Katie Liu

Nov 29 '23

Fixing more bugs in Java Spring Boot project!

#opensource #java #springboot #spring

3 min read

Jing for AREX Test

Nov 29 '23

How to mock a method call with Java Agent?

#devops #java #testing #opensource

6 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Nov 28 '23

Strategies for Successful Contributor Onboarding

#opensource #onboarding

8 min read

Leo Song

Nov 28 '23

Explore Full Stack Magic：Next.js + Prisma + Next-auth + vercel/postgres

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

8 min read

Katie Liu

Nov 29 '23

Contributing to a larger open source project!

#opensource #java #springboot #mysql

4 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Nov 27 '23

Releasing my Python Project

#python #pypi #opensource #programming

8 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Nov 21 '23

So You're Interested in Being an Open Source Maintainer

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie

8 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 28 '23

Open-source phone input components coded with Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #flowbite #opensource #webdev

3 min read

RoboCoach

Nov 28 '23

ROScribe release v0.0.4: training ROScribe with ROS Index to create an AI agent expert in robotics

#ai #robotics #openai #opensource

2 min read

Nov 22 '23

7 tips for a good code review

#opensource #github #beginners

2 min read

Nov 28 '23

Explore web applications through their content security policy (CSP)

#buildinpublic #opensource #security #cybersecurity

5 min read

Void⚡

Dec 8 '23

A Deep Dive Into Programming Language Coding in a Grid

#programming #tutorial #opensource #database

17 min read

Nov 28 '23

Executing a deeper penetration into Google's open-source project

#webdev #programming #opensource #typescript

12 min read

Nov 28 '23

Evaluating a deeper penetration into Google's open-source project

#webdev #programming #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 27 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #181

#opensource #aws

18 min read

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