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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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baize

Nov 17 '22

Web Development JWT Practices

#beginners #go #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Dzhavat Ushev for Playful Programming Angular

Nov 16 '22

Overview over Angular’s repositories

#angular #github #opensource

5 min read

Nov 17 '22

Three.js text scenes on Google Maps are so-good-it-hurts 🏙🔠😎

#threejs #googlemaps #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jessica Wilkins

Nov 13 '22

7 common mistakes new contributors make in Open Source Software

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

5 min read

Mohamed Khaled Yousef

Oct 18 '22

Hacktoberfest: Contributing to React project

#hacktoberfest #react #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Patrick Yuen for MIERUNE

Nov 17 '22

Let's try the HERE Route Matching API QGIS Plugin

#showdev #qgis #gis #opensource

4 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

Nov 17 '22

Alibaba Cloud’s OpenSergo & ShardingSphere release database governance standard for microservices

#database #opensource #community #microservices

6 min read

Nov 16 '22

Introducing Owen Sauce - a new way to collborate

#atlashackathon22 #opensource #webdev

1 min read

codeyStein

Nov 14 '22

Five FREE apis you NEED for your next project!

#api #programming #opensource

3 min read

Necati Özmen for Refine

Nov 15 '22

How to use JavaScript Ternary Operator?

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Maxim Nosov ✪

Nov 16 '22

Little things lead to a big effect

#opensource #webdev #design #css

3 min read

Nov 16 '22

The Ethereum Merge: What it Means for Developers

#javascript #tutorial #opensource #blockchain

3 min read

Bobur Umurzokov for Apache APISIX

Nov 15 '22

Top 10 services Apache APISIX use-cases

#programming #productivity #opensource #performance

4 min read

Jannis

Nov 16 '22

Manage your containers with Portainer

#docker #kubernetes #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Nov 16 '22

Top Free APIs to get started with your dev projects.

#webdev #beginners #api #opensource

3 min read

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