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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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Danglewood

Mar 8 '23

Building an Historical Prices Object With the OpenBB SDK

#showdev #tutorial #python #opensource

3 min read

Mar 8 '23

Crispin: Logger Facade for Flutter

#flutter #tutorial #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Mar 7 '23

Trending Go repos of the week 📈

#news #github #opensource #go

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 6 '23

How to build a bottom navigation component with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #flowbite #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

BekahHW

Mar 6 '23

How to Create a Positive Community for Your Open Source Project

#opensource #community #codenewbie

2 min read

cychu42

Feb 24 '23

Starchart: Mocking A Database Part 1

#webdev #testing #prisma #opensource

3 min read

JS for ZenStack

Mar 5 '23

How to find users for open source project with no resources and connections

#opensource #startup #webdev #community

6 min read

Mar 6 '23

Open Source - Windows 11 made in Nuxt 3 and Tailwind CSS

#vue #typescript #opensource #nuxt

1 min read

Abhishek Somani

Mar 5 '23

Style your terminals using Go-Palette 🎨

#opensource #go #github #programming

4 min read

Mar 6 '23

A developer-friendly introduction to open source licenses

#licenses #opensource

2 min read

Mar 5 '23

From a Dumb Student to a PyTorch Contributor: The Impact of Teachers on My Life⚡

#beginners #machinelearning #opensource #deeplearning

6 min read

Mar 17 '23

How Medusa is Empowering Small Businesses to Compete with Big Retailers

#opensource #medusa #startup #ecommerce

7 min read

Mar 5 '23

Introducing the Naruto DB: The most extensive public Naruto API for Naruto Character Universe

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

3 min read

Mar 5 '23

The Unsung Heroes of Open Source: The Dedicated Maintainers Behind Lesser-Known Projects

#opensource #github #programming #computerscience

7 min read

Rishabh Rathore

Feb 22 '23

Here are some Git commands that can help you to save time and increase your productivity

#github #git #opensource #openai

2 min read

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