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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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Akash Dev

Jul 9 '23

How to maintain GitHub while learning DSA

#dsa #extensions #github #opensource

2 min read

Jun 9 '23

Database cluster, Databases and Tables

#apache #agedb #postgres #opensource

4 min read

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Jakub Andrzejewski

Jul 3 '23

Component Libraries - Should you use them?

#opensource #javascript #typescript #webdev

4 min read

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Jul 8 '23

[Nestia] SDK and Mockup Simulator generation from Swagger Documents (Swagger to NestJS)

#nestjs #opensource #typescript #programming

5 min read

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Red Hacks

Jul 7 '23

Red Hacks Practice Group

#mentorship #group #redhat #opensource

3 min read

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Jun 12 '23

How I built my first Open Source project with ChatGPT and Next.js. 10k users in 24 hours 🤯

#opensource #chatgpt #nextjs #beginners

10 min read

Jul 8 '23

TxtAnime.js open source javascript library

#javascript #opensource #programming #webdev

1 min read

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Misha

Jul 8 '23

Create React UI Lib 1.1: Ladle and ESLint

#typescript #react #node #opensource

2 min read

Tib

Jul 7 '23

Open Letter To Tim O'Reilly To Free The Perl Camel

#perl #opensource #books #camel

6 min read

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Bob Tordella for AWS Community Builders

Jul 7 '23

What's new in the CIS v2.0 benchmark for AWS

#security #steampipe #opensource #aws

3 min read

Danie1

Jul 7 '23

Unofficial Python Meta Threads API is Available

#news #opensource #python #socialmedia

1 min read

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Miguel Eduardo Senna Moroni

Jul 7 '23

Revolucionando a legislação: Construindo leis descentralizadas através do GitHub

#git #github #opensource

2 min read

Gianluca

Jul 7 '23

Kubernetes add-on compliance with Projectsveltos and Lua

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #compliance

4 min read

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Thomas Segura for GitGuardian

Jul 7 '23

GitHub's Push Protection: Enhancing Open-Source Security with Limitations to Consider

#news #github #security #opensource

7 min read

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Alexey Yuzhakov

Jul 2 '23

Build an Open Source Project: Behind the Scenes

#opensource #programming #linux

9 min read

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