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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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 8 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 23

#opensource #aws

16 min read

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manish srivastava

Jun 10 '20

FM RADIO : Let's Create our own using Ubuntu & Docker. ( Yes !!! Possible in 10 Mins)

#showdev #linux #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Prathamesh Sahasrabhojane ✔️

Jun 10 '20

[~]$ git init (AdventureSite)

#github #opensource #react #webdev

1 min read

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Ali Abbas

Jun 8 '20

📈 Scaling your Startup to 10M+ Users 🚀

#javascript #opensource #startup #tutorial

1 min read

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Jun 10 '20

Serve Website/Api from your own system

#api #hosting #agile #opensource

1 min read

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manish srivastava

Jun 3 '20

Tired of Bootstrap? Try Metrojs.

#css #javascript #opensource #beginners

2 min read

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Radoslav Nikolov

Jun 8 '20

Backend projects ideas

#discuss #hiring #career #opensource

1 min read

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Jayesh

Jun 8 '20

Add badges to repos in bulk

#github #opensource #python

1 min read

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Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Jun 8 '20

Everything you need to know about EULA

#showdev #opensource #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

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Jun 8 '20

Tydii - Decluttering App

#showdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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Jun 7 '20

First Contribution to Open Source!

#opensource #github #git

3 min read

Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Jun 5 '20

Deadline Extended for Grant For The Web x DEV Community hackathon

#gftwhackathon #meta #webmonitization #opensource

1 min read

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Jun 8 '20

GSoC 20: Week 1

#python #gsoc #opensource

5 min read

Akanksha Raghav

Jun 8 '20

Difference between Git and GitHub

#github #git #opensource

1 min read

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Gautham Prakash

Jun 7 '20

Easiest way to install Android OS via Linux. No Grub fiddling!

#linux #android #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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Jun 5 '20

Late beginner

#codenewbie #opensource #github #beginners

4 min read

Abhishek Keshri

Jun 8 '20

Sync Forked Repository With Upstream 🔁✔️

#developer #git #github #opensource

1 min read

Jun 15 '20

Free VPN [WireGuard] Setup 🇬🇧

#opensource #security #linux #network

7 min read

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Raphaël Pinson

Jun 10 '20

Configuration surgery with Go structure tags

#showdev #go #opensource #augeas

5 min read

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Jun 6 '20

What is Persistent Volume (PV) & Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) in Kubernetes?

#kubernetes #devops #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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Jun 5 '20

Web Friday: Hunt 2

#webdev #opensource #freebies #productivity

2 min read

Snir David

Jun 4 '20

Pragmatic weekend project - apartments bot

#javascript #productivity #node #opensource

3 min read

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Jun 2 '20

How do you cover for domain name costs in FOSS projects?

#discuss #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 7 '20

Announcing the Grant For The Web Hackathon on DEV

#gftwhackathon #opensource #meta #webmonetization

6 min read

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Gautham Prakash

Jun 3 '20

Dockerfile Templates For All Programming languages

#docker #linux #opensource #github

1 min read

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