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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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Antonello Zanini for Apostrophe

Mar 29 '23

How to Build a Blog with the Apostrophe Blog Module

#webdev #opensource #tutorial #javascript

13 min read

Hannah Aubry for Fastly

Mar 28 '23

Mastodon has 10 million users! 🎉

#fediverse #opensource #mastodon #community

12 min read

iskurbanov

Mar 28 '23

10 Free Next.js Templates and Hidden Gems 2023

#react #nextjs #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Mar 29 '23

My Journey in Open Source - super-simple-signal

#javascript #opensource #github #node

3 min read

Prosper Otemuyiwa for novu

Mar 28 '23

What's New in Novu 0.13.0?

#javascript #notifications #opensource #novu

4 min read

Mar 28 '23

Trending Rust repos of the week 📈

#news #github #opensource #rust

5 min read

Alex M. Schapelle for Vaiolabs

Mar 28 '23

Manage Calendar & Address Book Micro-services

#cloud #docker #microservices #opensource

3 min read

cychu42

Mar 17 '23

Starchart: "Mocking" A Database Part 2

#docker #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

tom

Mar 28 '23

Monitoring SpringBoot2 Metrics with HertzBeat in 5 minutes

#opensource #spring #java #monitoring

6 min read

Mar 28 '23

Understanding Software Licenses: Open-Source vs. Commercial

#opensource #computerscience #startup

6 min read

Captone Habiyaremye

Mar 28 '23

ChatGPT's help and guidance for solving leetcode/hacker-rank questions

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

ZigRazor for CXXGraph

Mar 28 '23

Revolutionizing Data Processing with CXXGraph: A Comprehensive Guide to Graph Data Structures in C++

#github #productivity #opensource #cpp

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 27 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #150

#opensource #aws

12 min read

May Ender

Mar 16 '23

Appwrite Loves Open Source: Why I Chose To Sponsor Medito 🧘‍♀️

#meditation #opensource

2 min read

Mar 26 '23

How to write better Git commit messages ?

#github #git #opensource

2 min read

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