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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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Jan 16 '21

Release 1.49 of perl-workflow

#perl #release #opensource

4 min read

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Jan 16 '21

SimplQ: How we went from a hackathon project to a fully open source project with contributors

#opensource #react #sideprojects #webdev

6 min read

ryo-ma

Jan 16 '21

Update: 🏆 GitHub Profile Trophy / Add dynamically generated GitHub Trophy on your readme

#showdev #github #typescript #opensource

2 min read

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Franklin Okolie

Jan 16 '21

An immersive introductory guide to Open-source

#showdev #opensource #beginners #github

7 min read

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Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Jan 15 '21

Internal RFC Process and forem.dev Discussions

#opensource #meta #changelog

3 min read

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Agustin Perez Paladini

Jan 16 '21

opensource c++ "productivity app". Contributors wanted :)

#cpp #opensource #contributorswanted #qt

3 min read

Jan 15 '21

New Horizons with Open Source Development

#opensource #javascript #github

3 min read

Jan 14 '21

MLH Fellowship: Memories that I always love to bring back.

#mlhgrad #opensource #github #career

7 min read

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Ali Abbas

Jan 14 '21

Setup Mobile OTP using AWS

#opensource #github #javascript #aws

1 min read

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Jan 14 '21

Reclaim Your Data Privacy From Big Tech With the Best Privacy-Focused Alternatives

#productivity #opensource #security #tooling

8 min read

Jan 14 '21

Tawk.to - Monitor and chat with the visitors on your website

#opensource

1 min read

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Adi Polak

Jan 14 '21

Apache Spark Ecosystem, Jan 2021 Highlights

#opensource #datascience #dataengineering

4 min read

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Jan 14 '21

Highlights in DevOps and Open Source from the Future Developer Summit - Day 1

#devrel #opensource #devops #eventdriven

7 min read

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Rupendra choudhary

Jan 13 '21

A brief history of Linux

#linux #computerscience #opensource

4 min read

Julie

Dec 11 '20

Better than IRL: The creation process of a virtual drawing board

#ux #opensource #startup #design

5 min read

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Jan 13 '21

Laravel Package Translator Loader

#opensource #php #laravel #solumdesignum

1 min read

Alan Lee

Jan 13 '21

Track your SMS campaigns in Google Analytics with Reshuffle and Twilio

#opensource #twilio #reshuffle #googleanalytics

4 min read

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Deepu K Sasidharan for Adyen

Jan 13 '21

The Adyen way of engineering: Our tech stack is open source or built in-house

#opensource #postgres #fintech

4 min read

Vincent

Jan 13 '21

Ory Hydra 1.9: Open Source OAuth2/OIDC Provider

#opensource #oauth #oidc #authentication

1 min read

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Lucas Marçal Coutinho

Jan 3 '21

Linux, the right choice?

#linux #opensource #beginners #os

10 min read

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Jan 13 '21

The First Jaeger Tracing as a Service

#devops #monitoring #microservices #opensource

3 min read

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Yarbash

Jan 12 '21

"I have nothing to hide.."

#discuss #privacy #opensource

3 min read

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Jan 12 '21

Repos interesantes de la semana #1

#spanish #opensource #webdev #programming

4 min read

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Jan 12 '21

Instalación de Ruby on Rails en WSL2 y zsh

#ruby #rails #linux #opensource

2 min read

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Adi Polak

Jan 12 '21

Tech Exceptions new Episode - From Open Source to Multi B$$$ IPO

#techtalks #career #startup #opensource

1 min read

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