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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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Mar 18 '23

The problem with open source: not enough contributors

#opensource #osdc

5 min read

Omar3ain

Mar 19 '23

Building Scalable and Maintainable Node.js Applications with TypeScript and OOP Principles

#node #typescript #oop #opensource

4 min read

ffex

Mar 19 '23

JourneyLog

#showdev #opensource #react #appwrite

3 min read

Mar 14 '23

Build your own ChatGPT starter kit

#openai #opensource #ai #nextjs

3 min read

Irfaq Syed

Mar 18 '23

Tutorial: How to Resolve Method Not Found Warnings in Laravel Packages using Docgen

#laravel #php #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

Mar 16 '23

Introducing the Appwrite Heroes

#appwrite #community #announcement #opensource

5 min read

Bobur Umurzokov

Mar 18 '23

Automated Fuzz Testing: The Power of Code Intelligence App

#testing #productivity #opensource #security

5 min read

Matheus Farias de Oliveira Matsumoto

Mar 17 '23

Analyzing Wikipedia's Articles Classification Chain With Apache AGE

#postgres #opensource #database #graph

3 min read

Eric Smalling for Snyk

Mar 30 '23

The Docker project turns 10! Looking back at a decade of containers

#containers #docker #opensource #history

14 min read

Mar 17 '23

Anomm - how i created an open source anonymous messaging service

#github #nextjs #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 16 '23

How to build an image gallery with masonry grid layout in Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #tutorial #flowbite #opensource

3 min read

Archer Allstars

Mar 16 '23

Replace Google Drive with Storj, plus Rclone and Kopia.

#tutorial #productivity #web3 #opensource

10 min read

Toma Rares

Mar 14 '23

I've made a Free drag and drop React Template Builder

#react #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Mar 16 '23

Hoppscotch @ FOSSMeet'23

#news #opensource #api #community

3 min read

Mar 15 '23

Shopify vs. Medusa

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tutorial

11 min read

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