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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 8 '22

Release 1.30 of Date::Holidays - more holiday for the French

#release #perl #opensource

2 min read

Mar 9 '22

Simple & efficient code collaboration

#git #productivity #devops #opensource

3 min read

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francisadp

Mar 9 '22

Comparaison entre mysqldump vs MySQL Shell Utilities vs mydumper vs mysqlpump vs XtraBackup

#mysql #database #opensource #percona

5 min read

SeaQL

Mar 8 '22

Google Summer of Code 2022 with SeaQL

#news #opensource #gsoc #google

2 min read

Cindy Le

Mar 8 '22

How to Dockerize a Docusaurus v2 application

#docker #documentation #opensource

2 min read

Medea

Mar 8 '22

Quiz Website Thingy

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

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Andrea Liliana Griffiths

Mar 8 '22

GitHub en coreano, portugués y ahora español

#spanish #github #programming #opensource

2 min read

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Bradley Schofield for Appwrite

Mar 7 '22

Take your Serverless Functions to new speeds with Appwrite 0.13

#serverless #opensource #docker #performance

7 min read

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Shada for Strapi

Mar 8 '22

How to build a Marketing Site with React and Strapi

#react #jamstack #javascript #opensource

12 min read

Mar 8 '22

Office Management System

#laravel #docker #github #opensource

3 min read

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Yezy Ilomo

Mar 8 '22

You’re One Import Away From Managing Global State In React

#showdev #react #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 7 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #103

#opensource #aws

15 min read

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Application Library Engineering Group

Mar 8 '22

A Guide to Lottie in HarmonyOS

#opensource #java #distributedsystems

5 min read

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Bradley Schofield for Appwrite

Mar 7 '22

Everything you need to know about Appwrite Functions 0.13

#serverless #appwrite #webdev #opensource

5 min read

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

Mar 7 '22

One secret tip for first-time OSS contributors. Shh! 🤫 don't tell anyone else

#opensource #git #programming

3 min read

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