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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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Sep 3 '23

Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Astronomical week

#astro #javascript #node #opensource

3 min read

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Sep 3 '23

Building Digital Public Goods: Journey with the Open Healthcare Network

#opensource #development #community

3 min read

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Kaustubh Shinde

Sep 3 '23

Advance Tables using only HTML CSS and JavaScript

#codepen #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Johannes

Aug 28 '23

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#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

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Adityan

Sep 3 '23

Introducing Quarkflow: Streamlining Your Development Workflows

#opensource #quarkflow #cli #devtools

2 min read

Luis Fabrício De Llamas

Sep 3 '23

[ptbr]Fazendo de uma comunidade a sua segunda casa.

#quarkus #java #opensource #ptbr

3 min read

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Khushboo Verma for Appwrite

Aug 30 '23

Appwrite 1.4 Brings Command Center, AI, One-Click Migrations, and Upgraded Functions

#appwrite #ai #opensource #cloud

4 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 30 '23

Open Source ABCs: License

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

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Francesco Sardone

Sep 2 '23

Discovering With GitHub Explore

#github #beginners #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

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Sep 2 '23

Security tools and AI are a perfect match

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #ai

4 min read

Johannes

Sep 1 '23

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#opensource #job #webdev #javascript

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Marcin

Aug 29 '23

Are you on Discord communities related to Open-Source libraries?

#discuss #programming #opensource #learning

1 min read

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eylonmiz for Pezzo

Sep 1 '23

The 5 Pillars for taking LLM to production

#llm #webdev #opensource #openai

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Kellen for QuestDB

Sep 1 '23

Our Website Source Is Now Private, A Cautionary Tale

#webdev #learning #opensource

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Bradley Schofield for Appwrite

Aug 31 '23

Introducing Appwrite Migrations: Effortless data migration from your platforms

#database #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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