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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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gargantua

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Working smarter instead of harder... in C!

#c #programming #opensource #learning

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Abhishek Pathak

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simple open source projects

#opensource #scor32k

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Introduction to OpenCV in Python: Basics and Installation Guide

#python #opencv #opensource #coding

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Introducing Goctopus: open-source, state-of-the-art GraphQL endpoint discovery & fingerprinting tool.

#opensource #security #go

6 min read

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Divyansh Singh for OpenSauced

Aug 2 '23

How Open Source helped me get into the GitHub Octernships program.

#opensource #github #career #beginners

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Syed Nashet Ali

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Contributing to AI Shopping Cart - App Template for Java, Azure OpenAI and Azure Spring Apps

#javascript #opensource #openapi #azure

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Laura Du Ry for Appwrite

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The Road to Appwrite's Pricing Plans

#cloud #opensource

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Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Aug 10 '23

Community Highlights: Svelte Storefront, Medusa Flutter Admin, and lots of new plugins

#opensource #programming #javascript #webdev

4 min read

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Gabriel Grinberg

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Build a Discord Bot Using Visual Programming in VSCode With Flyde

#beginners #opensource #discord #bots

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Shai Almog

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#java #opensource #books #devops

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John McBride for OpenSauced

Aug 9 '23

Caching Git Repos: A Deep Dive into OpenSauced’s ‘Pizza Oven’ Service

#go #datastructures #opensource

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Jonathan Reimer

Aug 10 '23

How to Acquire Users for Your Developer Tool? with Rishabh Kaul (Appsmith)

#developermarketing #opensource #growth #developerled

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Eric Allam for Trigger.dev

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#codenewbie #learning #productivity #opensource

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Hebert Montarroyos

Aug 10 '23

Como contribuir com projeto open source e apoiar a comunidade

#opensource #git #github #coding

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