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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 13 '23

Medusa vs Shopify

#opensource #webdev #programming #tooling

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 13 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #148

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Vinicius Blazius Goulart

Mar 13 '23

How learning in public helped me in my journey

#opensource #career

4 min read

Anton Sukhachev

Mar 13 '23

PHP Skeleton for Bison

#php #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Francielle Dellamora

Mar 10 '23

Boosting Woman Participation in Open Source Projects: A Beginner's Guide to Contributing

#wecoded #opensource #community #motivation

3 min read

ringabout

Mar 13 '23

My Nim Development Weekly Report (3/12)

#nim #opensource #contributorswanted

3 min read

Deepak Prabhakara for BoxyHQ

Mar 15 '23

Exploring the open-source business model and how companies monetize it

#opensource

5 min read

Mar 12 '23

Draw beautiful geometric visualizations with Python and Spyrograph

#showdev #python #math #opensource

3 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Mar 7 '23

The Awesome Side of GitHub - Awesome Lists

#github #opensource #tutorial #awesome

3 min read

Bhartee Rameshwar Sahare

Mar 12 '23

What is JSON?

#webdev #programming #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Sylwester Woźniak

Mar 12 '23

アットホーム

#codepen #webdev #ai #opensource

1 min read

krlz

Mar 11 '23

Scala google summer code 2023 is here

#challenge #scala #camp #opensource

2 min read

sfrunza13

Mar 12 '23

Successful SAML

#webdev #beginners #opensource #programming

4 min read

perber

Mar 11 '23

Building a Kubernetes Dashboard: Implementing a real-time Logview with Server-Sent Events and React-Window

#kubernetes #go #opensource #webdev

7 min read

Suraj Vishwakarma

Feb 23 '23

7 Essential React Libraries for Front-End Web Development

#discuss #opensource

4 min read

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