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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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Julia Furst Morgado

Dec 26 '22

How can I become an Open Source contributor? (The ultimate guide)

#opensource #programming #codenewbie #tutorial

11 min read

Dec 18 '22

[Typia] 15,000x faster TypeScript Validator and its histories

#typescript #javascript #opensource #programming

11 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Dec 26 '22

My Journey in Open Source - key-value-cache

#javascript #github #opensource #typescript

8 min read

Dec 25 '22

How To Give your React App a Holiday Theme with react-snowfall

#opensource #productivity

2 min read

jbx1279

Dec 26 '22

Open-source SPL that can execute SQL without RDB

#sql #database #opensource #java

11 min read

AparnaGopalkrishnan for TestMu AI

Dec 25 '22

How To Generate HTML Reports With WebdriverIO?

#discuss #opensource

12 min read

Ege Aytin

Dec 23 '22

RBAC vs ReBAC: When to use them

#opensource #webdev #go #security

5 min read

Gabrielle Niamat

Dec 23 '22

Applying to the MLH Fellowship in 2023 🎊

#opensource #mlhgrad #devops #devrel

6 min read

Erin Bensinger for CodeNewbie

Dec 22 '22

CodeNewbie Season 22 Episode 7! Starting out in Open Source with Brian Douglas

#codenewbie #podcast #opensource

1 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Dec 23 '22

🎄The entire Luos team wishes you a happy holiday season!

#opensource #cps #github #luos

1 min read

Dec 27 '22

I am creating a new ✨JavaScript✨ Framework

#webdev #javascript #opensource #api

2 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

Dec 12 '22

ShardingSphere 5.3.0 is released: new features and improvements

#programming #opensource #database #cloud

9 min read

Safa Emhemed for Medusa

Dec 22 '22

The world’s best B2B ecommerce UX: Massey Ferguson (5/5)

#ux #opensource #webdev #programming

5 min read

Dec 22 '22

Comparing Google Civic API and Cicero API for availability

#api #opensource #tutorial #civictech

4 min read

Johannes Dienst

Dec 22 '22

Add Spellchecker to Your Node.js Project

#tutorial #opensource #node

3 min read

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