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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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James Lau

Aug 9 '23

The Constant Gardener

#opensource #volunteer #career #wordpress

4 min read

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Gianluca

Aug 10 '23

Sveltos: Automate Configuration Updates for Kubernetes Applications

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #management

2 min read

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Ayu Adiati

Aug 7 '23

#100DaysOfOSS Recap: Day 1-14

#opensource #codenewbie #webdev #beginners

4 min read

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Aug 10 '23

Deployment overview of micro-cluster for Secutils.dev micro-SaaS

#buildinpublic #opensource #security #microsaas

4 min read

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Timi

Aug 5 '23

Use Type, not Interface in TypeScript

#typescript #opensource #node #react

3 min read

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Elian Van Cutsem

Aug 7 '23

I'm joining Astro full time!

#astro #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 8 '23

Open Source ABCs: Evolution

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Aug 10 '23

The astro-deck's CLI

#astro #cli #opensource #typescript

4 min read

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Aug 9 '23

Comparing Tortoise and Bark for Voice Synthesis

#programming #tutorial #beginners #opensource

15 min read

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Tomer Greenwald

Aug 9 '23

Using Helm dashboard and intents-based access control for pain-free network segmentation

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

4 min read

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Aug 9 '23

Secutils.dev technology stack overview

#buildinpublic #opensource #security #microsaas

6 min read

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Aug 9 '23

The Legacy Code Hustle: Navigating the Code with 7 Effective Strategies

#beginners #programming #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Sanjampreet Singh

Aug 8 '23

Simplifying API Calls with URLSearchParams and Fetch

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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Nikolai Trukhin

Aug 8 '23

Swiftly Chatting: Building Chatbots with Botter

#swift #tutorial #opensource #backend

5 min read

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Aug 8 '23

My First Open Source Contribution: How I Did It

#opensource #web3 #learning #beginners

7 min read

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