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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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May 16 '24

Processing Foundation 2024 Software Development Grant (pr05): 'New Beginnings' Open Call

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

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eter nada

Jun 19 '24

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#github #beginners #tutorial #opensource

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Leveraging APIs to Enhance Your Software Functionality

#api #programming #tutorial #opensource

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#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

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Jun 19 '24

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#webdev #api #opensource #javascript

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Jun 19 '24

Automated Unit Testing: Enhancing Software Quality and Efficiency

#unittest #testing #opensource #softwaredevelopment

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Jun 19 '24

Idempotent in Computing: A Comprehensive Guide

#webdev #devops #opensource #datascience

4 min read

DASWU

May 17 '24

Data Sync in JuiceFS 1.2: Enhanced Selective Sync and Performance Optimizations

#opensource

5 min read

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Jun 17 '24

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#docker #selfhosted #tutorial #opensource

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Alanna Burke for Lagoon

May 15 '24

LagoonCon Portland 2024 Recap

#lagooncon #event #opensource

11 min read

Stanislav(Stas) Katkov

Jun 18 '24

Munster - Webhooks processing engine for Rails

#rails #webhooks #ruby #opensource

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#javascript #nextjs #shadcnui #opensource

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Eppie

May 15 '24

Introducing Eppie-CLI — the official CLI for Eppie, an open protocol encrypted p2p email

#csharp #web3 #opensource #security

3 min read

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Antonio

Jun 18 '24

Top 19 Contributed Repositories on GitHub

#awesome #opensource #learning #webdev

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Davide Boncompagni for SparkFabrik

Jun 10 '24

Open Source Day: A Report

#opensource #schrödingerhat #community #events

7 min read

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