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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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khoubaib maamouri

Mar 23 '23

What Actually Happened to Faker.js: Open Source Contribution Lessons

#opensource #faker #javascript #story

3 min read

James Robiony-Rogers

Mar 23 '23

Upgrading My Web Portfolio: My Journey from Static HTML to Dynamic React

#codenewbie #community #career #opensource

4 min read

Yamen Hadla for visuellverstehen

Mar 23 '23

Effortless Language Redirection - TYPO3 Extension

#opensource #typo3 #php #github

2 min read

Andrea Liliana Griffiths for GitHub

Mar 22 '23

Rompiendo las barreras a la colaboración: Open Source y GitHub Codespaces

#opensource #github #spanish #containers

3 min read

Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Mar 23 '23

Your Shortcut to Becoming a Contributor in Google Summer of Code

#postman #opensource #programming #beginners

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 22 '23

Self managed Apache Airflow with Data on EKS

#opensource #aws

10 min read

Mar 22 '23

I'm planning to build a new OS for embedded smart displays

#opensource

1 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

Mar 22 '23

Create a Word Guessing Game With Apache AGE

#postgres #opensource #database #apacheage

3 min read

Nathan Tarbert for BoxyHQ

Mar 27 '23

SBOM Explained: 📚 An Enterprise Guide to Security Risk Management

#sbom #opensource #riskmanagement #security

4 min read

Andrea Liliana Griffiths

Mar 22 '23

Breaking down the barriers to collaboration: Open Source and GitHub Codespaces

#opensource #githubcodespaces #vscode #contributorswanted

2 min read

Mar 22 '23

Getting started with open source contribution

#opensource #headless #vendure #codenewbie

3 min read

Kseniya Fedoruk for ONLYOFFICE

Mar 22 '23

ONLYOFFICE updates for developers: API & Doc Builder [March 2023]

#news #onlyoffice #api #opensource

3 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Mar 21 '23

Testing your APIs locally using Hoppscotch

#webdev #api #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

sfrunza13

Feb 20 '23

Failing Forward

#webdev #opensource #programming

4 min read

Mar 21 '23

Analysing the Demographics of Open Source Contribution and Communities Using Microsoft Excel

#opensource #datascience #excel

8 min read

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