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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.

submission guidelines

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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 1 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #119

#opensource #aws

15 min read

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Hung Vu for Medusa

Jun 30 '22

A Guide for Beginners into Medusa, the Open Source Ecommerce Platform

#opensource #webdev #programming #javascript

9 min read

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Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

Jun 30 '22

GitHub Sponsors: Patrocinando Open Source

#braziliandevs #github #opensource #githubbrasil

3 min read

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Takshak Ramteke

Jul 1 '22

🧪 E2E tests made easy with Cypress + Cucumber

#testing #opensource #cypress #cucumbe

5 min read

Sidharth Mohanty

Jul 1 '22

[PART-I] GSoC 2022 | Rocket.Chat | EmbeddedChat

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Jul 1 '22

Love, Code, and Robot — Explore robots in the world of code

#discuss #github #opensource #programming

4 min read

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Sm0ke

Jun 28 '22

Tailwind CSS - Open-Source Starters

#tailwindcss #opensource #webdev

3 min read

awalias for Supabase

Jun 30 '22

Visualizing Supabase Data using Metabase

#supabase #metabase #opensource #programming

5 min read

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Everly Precia Suresh for Appwrite

Jun 28 '22

Introducing $createdAt And $updatedAt On Each Resource

#opensource #database #javascript #appwrite

3 min read

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Thomas.G for NodeSecure

Jun 29 '22

NodeSecure CLI v2.0.0

#javascript #node #security #opensource

6 min read

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Torsten Dittmann for Appwrite

Jun 28 '22

Announcing Appwrite 0.15 with Phone Authentication & More!

#news #opensource #cloud #showdev

5 min read

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Shamanth Shetty for Kern AI

Jun 29 '22

Play around with the data of each record in a Python IDE

#showdev #python #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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Jun 29 '22

Begin your opensource journey

#github #opensource

3 min read

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Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

May 30 '22

Hot plug

#opensource #microservices #systems #luos

1 min read

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Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Jun 28 '22

Things to Keep in Mind When Choosing an OpenTelemetry Backend

#devops #microservices #monitoring #opensource

10 min read

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