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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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Mar 22 '23

Getting started with open source contribution

#opensource #headless #vendure #codenewbie

3 min read

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Kseniya Fedoruk for ONLYOFFICE

Mar 22 '23

ONLYOFFICE updates for developers: API & Doc Builder [March 2023]

#news #onlyoffice #api #opensource

3 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Mar 21 '23

Testing your APIs locally using Hoppscotch

#webdev #api #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

sfrunza13

Feb 20 '23

Failing Forward

#webdev #opensource #programming

4 min read

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Mar 21 '23

Analysing the Demographics of Open Source Contribution and Communities Using Microsoft Excel

#opensource #datascience #excel

8 min read

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Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Mar 20 '23

What the FORK are you doing?!

#github #opensource #tutorial #codenewbie

3 min read

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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 20 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #149

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Mar 19 '23

Why use graph database?

#apacheage #postgres #neo4j #opensource

1 min read

Mar 21 '23

Master git commits with AI

#git #ai #opensource #openai

1 min read

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Mar 20 '23

Spice Up Your Svelte App with Sound Interactions using svelte-sound 😎

#svelte #javascript #typescript #opensource

6 min read

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Kavitha R

Mar 21 '23

What is Blockchain Testing?

#discuss #testing #devops #opensource

3 min read

Liz

Mar 21 '23

creating badge-lists, fancy stuff

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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Johannes Dienst

Mar 20 '23

How to Create Subtitle-Files (srt) with WhisperAI

#programming #productivity #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

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Gun

Mar 20 '23

Medusa Vs Woocommerce: Comparing Two Open source Online Commerce Platforms

#headless #opensource #commerce #medusajs

12 min read

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Mihaly Balassy for AWS Community Builders

Mar 20 '23

Bringing together Hungarian technology conferences

#aws #jeklly #opensource #beginners

3 min read

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