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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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Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Mar 31

From Developer to Tech Lead: The Role of Project Management in Career Growth

#productivity #opensource #devops #webdev

5 min read

Michael Interface

Mar 31

How to Use Pytest for Exception Testing: Insights from Open Source Projects

#python #opensource #programming #testing

5 min read

Ricardo Domínguez González

Mar 31

Construyendo Mi Nube Personal: Lecciones Aprendidas en Next cloud y Apache

#ubuntu #opensource #nextcloud #mariadb

7 min read

Mar 30

Self-Hosting ownCloud on a Hetzner Ubuntu Server

#cloud #devops #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Mar 31

FilePizza, a peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser.

#filepizza #opensource #webrtc #upload

2 min read

Mar 31

📝 Why Crypto Wallets Need AI & Smart Security

#webdev #ai #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Mahas1234

Mar 30

How to Contribute to Open-Source Projects as a Beginner

#opensource #github #softwaredevelopment #webdev

2 min read

Ekin İlter Varlı

Mar 30

Retto Social: Social network for modern web

#socialmedia #opensource #web3 #webdev

1 min read

Abby Nduta

Mar 29

How to set up a VM with Virtualbox

#virtualmachine #openstack #virtualbox #opensource

4 min read

Nathan Ang

Mar 29

I’m Building a Python/JS/Java Killer—Here’s Why

#opensource #programming #coding #contributorswanted

1 min read

NeuroSync

Mar 28

How Focus Bubble™ Works: Enter Your Distraction-Free Zone

#focus #productivity #devtools #opensource

1 min read

NeuroSync

Mar 28

How FlowForge™ Works: AI-Powered Time & Energy Planning

#ai #productivity #calendar #opensource

1 min read

NeuroSync

Mar 28

Introducing NeuroSync — The Emotionally Intelligent Productivity OS (Open-Source & Modular)

#opensource #productivity #ai #startup

2 min read

koyopro

Mar 28

After a Year of Wanting a Typed Rails and Starting Development, I Released a Framework for TypeScript

#typescript #opensource #orm #webdev

6 min read

Mar 28

A new way to sync your Obsidian vault

#react #javascript #typescript #opensource

8 min read

Mar 28

TishCommerce – A Database-Free eCommerce Platform Built with Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS, and Redux

#showdev #nextjs #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mar 28

Day 1 at payilagam "Intro To Python"

#python #programming #opensource #linux

1 min read

Mar 28

The Hidden Costs of Kubernetes: What Your Cloud Bill Isn’t Telling You

#kubernetes #cloud #devops #opensource

4 min read

Editor CircuitDigest

Mar 28

License Plate Recognition with ESP32-CAM and Python

#opensource #esp32 #api #arduino

1 min read

Mar 28

downloadInBrowser function in Refine source code.

#react #javascript #opensource #download

2 min read

Second Me

Mar 28

How Second Me Hit 6K+ Stars on GitHub in Just 1 Week (and Why You Should Join)

#programming #ai #opensource #python

2 min read

Gus

Mar 27

Beyond Assistants: The Birth of KinAI

#ai #opensource #api

2 min read

Chen Debra

Mar 27

NetEase Mail's Migration Journey to DolphinScheduler: 10 Efficiency Improvement

#opensource #apachedolphinscheduler #netease #programming

10 min read

TheoForger

Mar 27

Sprint 5 - Mischief Happens

#opensource #beginners #rust

4 min read

Syed Mudasser Anayat

Mar 27

AI is More Dangerous Than We Think

#ai #opensource #futureofai #webdev

3 min read

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