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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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Devtron for Devtron

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Kubernetes Dashboard Part-1: Application Management

#kubernetes #devtron #devops #opensource

4 min read

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Ben Link

Jul 11 '24

The Adventures of Blink #31: The PhilBott

#ai #python #socialmedia #opensource

5 min read

Christopher Chhim

Jun 7 '24

Useful Resources for Web Developers

#webdev #opensource

1 min read

Jun 6 '24

What is Open Source Software (OSS)?

#linux #opensource

2 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 4 '24

The Silent Crisis in Open Source: When Maintainers Walk Away

#opensource #community #burnout

6 min read

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Jul 10 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How does shadcn-ui CLI work? — Part 2.10

#opensource #shadcnui #nextjs #node

4 min read

Jul 10 '24

Handling File Uploads in Laravel, Automatically.

#laravel #fileuploads #opensource

8 min read

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Tung Leo

Jul 9 '24

Introducing the new feature of DevOps Toolkit: Configuration Reusability 🚀

#devops #docker #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Eugene Tolbakov

Jul 9 '24

Enhancing the SQL Interval syntax: A story of Open Source contribution

#rust #beginners #opensource #sql

5 min read

Jun 19 '24

Spring Modulith: Modularization of a monolithic application

#productivity #opensource #spring

1 min read

Palomino for Logto

Jul 9 '24

RBAC and ABAC: The access control models you should know

#webdev #identity #opensource #programming

9 min read

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Jul 9 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How does shadcn-ui CLI work? — Part 2.9

#javascript #nextjs #shadcnui #opensource

3 min read

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Juraj for Cyclops UI

Jul 5 '24

What the Helm?!

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #codenewbie

5 min read

Palomino for Logto

Jul 9 '24

Understand Just-in-Time provisioning

#webdev #saas #identity #opensource

8 min read

Jun 28 '24

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

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