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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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Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

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GitHub Unwrapped 2024: recap 🧢

#github #opensource #programming #productivity

2 min read

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Jan 3 '25

Self-hosting a Platform As A Service on a single EC2 instance with coolify

#aws #cloud #devops #opensource

1 min read

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Elufioye Gboyega michael

Jan 3 '25

What is Observability?

#opensource #metrics #prometheus #observability

3 min read

Chen Debra

Jan 3 '25

The Annual Question: Bugs Caused by Week-Based Year Formatting in Java

#java #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #github

2 min read

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Nov 30 '24

Jas - My x64 assembler

#assembly #c #cpp #opensource

1 min read

Jan 3 '25

Maintenance mode check in Next.js middleware.ts

#opensource #nextjs #vercel

4 min read

TheoForger

Nov 29 '24

December Surely Looks Busy!

#opensource #beginners #rust

2 min read

Gittech

Jan 2 '25

☃️ Jan 2, 2025: Top 40+ GitHub Finds – Highlighting Tools and Innovations for Developers

#top7 #github #opensource

15 min read

KAMGA BRANDON TAMWA KAMGA

Nov 29 '24

Démystifier le dossier .git : Le cœur du suivi de version de Git

#github #git #opensource

4 min read

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Gurjeet Singh Virdee

Dec 25 '24

My Open Source Journey: A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Collaboration and Growth

#opensource #webdev #programming #beginners

3 min read

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Antonio

Jan 20 '25

Show us your Open-Source project

#discuss #programming #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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Jan 2 '25

The Ultimate Guide for Beginners: Navigating Git and GitHub in the World of Tech

#github #git #opensource #beginners

5 min read

Nov 29 '24

The Final Stretch of My Open Source Journey: Part 2

#markdown #opensource #webdev #typescript

2 min read

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Dec 31 '24

My 2024 Unwrap (of course, it's not a must-read)

#programming #learning #opensource #github

5 min read

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Arindam Majumder

Dec 9 '24

Top 5 Open Source Projects You Must Explore Before 2025

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

8 min read

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