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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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MakendranG

Oct 31 '22

Why is everyone building on GitHub?

#beginners #opensource #tutorial #productivity

5 min read

Malte Riechmann for visuellverstehen

Oct 22 '22

New git guidelines: We have switched to Conventional Commits

#git #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Thomas Segura for GitGuardian

Nov 1 '22

Thinking Like a Hacker: Stealing Secrets with a Malicious GitHub Action

#security #hacking #github #opensource

4 min read

Nov 1 '22

How to set up "always encrypted" Rocket.Chat🚀 on Kubernetes

#security #tutorial #opensource #tooling

5 min read

Nov 1 '22

JavaScript: Zoom like in maps for SVG/HTML

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Nov 1 '22

My first step towards OSS

#opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Oct 28 '22

How to Master The Art of Content Creation As a Developer?

#react #tutorial #opensource #career

5 min read

Priyanshu mundra

Oct 11 '22

15 Best Terminal Commands That You Should Know

#github #opensource #developer #javascript

3 min read

Sebastian Huckleberry

Oct 20 '22

Run your README.md like a notebook in VS Code

#vscode #opensource #beginners #devops

5 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Oct 29 '22

Copying a Feature from Docusaurus 🦖 For My Static Site Generator - rwar 🦁

#tutorial #python #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Gulnur Baimukhambetova

Oct 31 '22

Docusaurus first impression and stealing like an open sourcer

#opensource #beginners #tutorial #webdev

3 min read

Bobur Umurzokov for Apache APISIX

Oct 31 '22

10 most common use cases of an API Gateway

#api #opensource #apigateway #programming

10 min read

Oct 31 '22

Portfolio - Open Source

#opensource #portfolio #github #webdev

1 min read

Oct 31 '22

Keeping track

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #privacy

1 min read

Oct 31 '22

Easter eggs in Hacktoberfest 🪺

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #productivity

3 min read

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