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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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John P. Rouillard

Nov 9 '23

Copy issue reference to clipboard enhancement

#webdev #opensource #javascript #frontend

3 min read

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Nov 8 '23

AWS VPC Project: Learn How to Design and Configure Virtual Private Clouds

#aws #beginners #devops #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 6 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #178

#opensource #aws

19 min read

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Geri Máté for dyrector.io

Nov 8 '23

Why You Should Self-Host GitHub Runners – Or Stay Away from It

#github #cicd #githubactions #opensource

7 min read

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Nov 2 '23

😎 React App Leveled Up with Open-Source SSO Auth Wizardry 🪄

#webdev #programming #tutorial #opensource

9 min read

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Vince Lwt for Lunary

Nov 6 '23

⭐ 9 Open Source tools to take your AI app to the next level 🚀🤖

#ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

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Tymoteusz Stępień

Nov 8 '23

Cypress vs. Sorry-Cypress - Decoding the Drama

#programming #opensource #testing

6 min read

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Christian Ledermann

Nov 4 '23

Love Your Representation

#python #opensource #cleancode #observability

7 min read

玄魂

Nov 8 '23

Multidimensional Data Presentation Based on VTable

#datavis #pivottable #javascript #opensource

7 min read

Nov 8 '23

How I Created My YouTube Video Summarizer: A Solution to Video Frustration

#opensource #productivity #python #llm

2 min read

Emil Pearce for novu

Nov 7 '23

What’s new in Novu 0.21?

#webdev #novu #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Cover image for ArtistAssistApp - the open source web app to paint better with ease 🖌️🎨

Nov 7 '23

ArtistAssistApp - the open source web app to paint better with ease 🖌️🎨

#showdev #opensource #typescript #react

3 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Nov 7 '23

Testing Typescript with Jest

#opensource #beginners #testing

2 min read

Alex for OpenSign

Nov 7 '23

5 Open-Source Projects That Will Elevate Your Coding Game in 2024

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

dev264

Nov 7 '23

Config-file-validator v1.5.0 Released!

#showdev #opensource #go #devops

1 min read

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