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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.

submission guidelines

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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Imamuzzaki Abu Salam

May 1 '23

Why is it so hard to create PWA with Next.js?

#nextjs #pwa #opensource #webdev

2 min read

May 1 '23

Um servidor DNS Recursivo rápido, seguro e escalável

#unbound #dns #opensource #braziliandevs

7 min read

Apr 27 '23

The Pidgin Team

#teams #developers #opensource #burnout

4 min read

Ahmed Mujtaba Butt

May 1 '23

From HTML to Node.js: 12 Mini Web Projects to Boost Your Web Development Skills

#webdev #beginners #opensource #codenewbie

6 min read

Cameron Archer for Tinybird

May 1 '23

Real-time databases: what developers need to know

#database #mongodb #postgres #opensource

14 min read

May 1 '23

Effortlessly update Your Spotify Playlists daily with This Simple Tool

#githubhack23 #python #githubactions #opensource

2 min read

Apr 29 '23

Git cheat sheet

#git #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

San

May 1 '23

What is Git, and Why Should You Use It?

#github #beginners #programming #opensource

5 min read

Stephany Ikebudu

May 1 '23

Git Commit Like A Pro

#git #opensource

5 min read

G

Apr 30 '23

Recursive GPT and multiple AI-Powered Prompters - Check out these creative projects! 🤖🔥

#javascript #ai #openai #opensource

1 min read

canalun

Apr 30 '23

Monorepo of Rust CLI & TS+Wasm VSCode

#rust #webassembly #monorepo #opensource

5 min read

Apr 30 '23

BookYourPandit.com

#githubhack23 #webdev #react #opensource

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 3 '23

How to Contribute to Open Source without Knowing How to Code: A guide with project suggestions

#opensource #webdev #github #codenewbie

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Apr 21 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 38)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Apr 5 '23

How to set X-Robots-Tag in htaccess for any query string

#apache #opensource

1 min read

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