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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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Ege Aytin for Permify

Aug 17 '23

Modeling Google Docs Access Management Using Permify

#opensource #google #webdev #tutorial

9 min read

toolkituse

Jul 14 '23

toolkit-use npm package have added some functions

#javascript #programming #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Ashutosh Mishra

Aug 14 '23

Where to Find Open Source Projects for Contribution?

#webdev #opensource #programming #beginners

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 14 '23

A look at airflowctl, a tool to help developers manage Apache Airflow projects

#opensource #airflow #aws

9 min read

Aug 15 '23

Upendo Prompt Helps You Demo & Test in Your DNN Websites!

#dnncms #cms #commandline #opensource

3 min read

Aug 16 '23

The Story of a Bug: Discovery and Unraveling Through CI/CD and Unit Testing

#programming #testing #opensource #github

8 min read

Aug 15 '23

Running Secutils.dev micro-SaaS for less than 1€ a month

#buildinpublic #opensource #security #microsaas

8 min read

Aug 14 '23

Why I Made a Pseudo Game Engine with SvelteKit

#svelte #opensource #webdev #gamedev

5 min read

toolkituse

Jul 13 '23

New storage utility methods added to the toolkit-use npm package

#javascript #programming #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Antonello Zanini for Apostrophe

Aug 15 '23

How to Integrate Generative AI Into Apostrophe

#howto #ai #opensource #javascript

11 min read

Abhishek Pathak

Aug 14 '23

Creating open source project in React js

#opensource #react #scor32k #programming

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 14 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #169

#opensource #aws

24 min read

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

Aug 15 '23

Managing State with the setState Method in React

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Kusuma

Aug 15 '23

Open-source post-quantum blockchain layer 1

#blockchain #opensource #developers

4 min read

Ferdinand Mütsch

Aug 15 '23

Wakapi - Open-Source Time Tracking for Devs

#showdev #opensource #selfhosted #go

1 min read

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