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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

Sep 14 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 35

#aws #opensource

14 min read

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YaelRiv

Sep 14 '20

Diary of a data engineer

#opensource #datascience #devops #python

1 min read

Sep 14 '20

fastget - ultra fast download files over HTTP(S)

#showdev #githunt #go #opensource

1 min read

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Sep 13 '20

Create social cards from Github Action

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Sep 11 '20

The GitHub Actions Hackathon Ends Next Week (September 17)!

#actionshackathon #opensource #github #actions

1 min read

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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Aug 13 '20

Announcing the GitHub Actions Hackathon on DEV!

#actionshackathon #actions #opensource #github

3 min read

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Sep 9 '20

I made my Gatsby blog open source: a feature walkthrough

#gatsby #blog #opensource

4 min read

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Abhishek Sisodiya

Sep 13 '20

Manage Github issues in Trello using Github Action

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Loralighte

Sep 13 '20

Linus Tech Tip's Video on Windows 10 Customization PROVES Why Linux is Better For the Every Day User.

#linux #opensource #privacy #windows10

6 min read

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Abhijeet Dave for ThemeSelection

Aug 24 '20

🤩 Best VS Codes Extensions 🛠 Every Developer Should Use in 2024

#webdev #vscode #productivity #opensource

10 min read

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Gregdevogo

Sep 10 '20

A new way of tokenization of Chinese or How to make Chinese full-text search

#tutorial #sql #opensource

5 min read

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Fajar Siddiq for Euphorya

Sep 12 '20

Gatsby + Figma + Netlify = Free Landing Page

#gatsby #design #opensource

1 min read

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Sep 12 '20

Root Cause: Troubleshoot Puppeteer & Playwright Tests with ease

#opensource #testing #puppeteer #playwright

2 min read

Facundo Giuliani

Sep 12 '20

Check the inclusion of Jira Issue Keys in PRs with GitHub Actions

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

3 min read

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Abhishek Sisodiya

Sep 10 '20

Github Action to get response time details of a URL in a scheduled interval

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource #github

2 min read

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