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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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Liberty

Apr 15 '23

Everright-formEditor low-code drag-and-drop form editor is now open-source

#javascript #vue #opensource #lowcode

5 min read

Matej Bačo for Appwrite

Apr 12 '23

Join Celebrations! Appwrite 1.3 Ships Relationships

#news #opensource #programming #showdev

7 min read

Apr 15 '23

Open Source to Break the Routine 💡

#opensource #programming #coding

2 min read

Torsten Dittmann for Appwrite

Apr 12 '23

New Operators to Query Documents More Efficiently

#news #opensource #programming

2 min read

Jake Barnby for Appwrite

Apr 12 '23

Simplify Your Data Management With Relationships

#news #opensource #programming #database

6 min read

Rohit Prasan Mandal

Apr 14 '23

50 + 10 = 50 Unique Python Project with 10 lines of Code

#python #machinelearning #opensource #programming

4 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Apr 11 '23

Never Use the WRONG Package Manager Again!

#webdev #node #codenewbie #opensource

3 min read

Apr 11 '23

How and why did you start contributing to Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #programming #webdev

1 min read

Apr 14 '23

Fireactjs: my open-source NPM packages for building SaaS using React, Firebase, and Stripe

#react #firebase #opensource #saas

4 min read

Christy Jacob for Appwrite

Apr 12 '23

Introducing Password Dictionary In Appwrite: A New Layer Of Security

#news #opensource #programming

3 min read

Giles Knap

Mar 15 '23

Learn Python using Minecraft

#python #beginners #programming #opensource

1 min read

Shannon McFarland for Outshift By Cisco

Apr 13 '23

VMClarity: Virtual Machine Security

#sbom #opensource #appsec

2 min read

Giuliano Bellini

Apr 13 '23

My Open Source project has been selected for the GitHub Accelerator Program and I'll be working on it full-time!

#github #opensource #rust #programming

3 min read

Thew

Apr 13 '23

Deploy your own short URL to Vercel Edge Middleware

#showdev #opensource #serverless #vercel

3 min read

Apr 12 '23

Is it easier to work alone than to work with others?

#discuss #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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