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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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Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Oct 27 '22

Medusa Hackathon Winner Announcement

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev #javascript

4 min read

Christopher Sandvik

Oct 28 '22

How I made my first successful open-source project

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

9 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 28 '22

AWS open source newsletter, #133

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Oct 28 '22

Building a Cybersecurity Game with Three.js - Inspired by Google’s Interland

#javascript #opensource #gamedev #cybersecurity

3 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Oct 27 '22

How Muay Thai and Powerlifting Made Me a Better Programmer 🥊🏋️‍♀️👩🏻‍💻 – Hacktoberfest Wrap-up!

#javascript #beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Oct 28 '22

🎭 Community engagement : submit issues in less time 🗳️⏱️

#todayilearned #github #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Oct 27 '22

Nightmare on Dev Street: Terrifying Situations to Make Your Spine Tingle

#programming #opensource #github #productivity

4 min read

Genne23v

Oct 28 '22

Adding Full Markdown Support and Sidebar Menu to My OpenSSG

#staticsitegenerator #java #opensource #docusaurus

2 min read

Ivan

Oct 27 '22

Rethinking Virtualization for Backends

#devops #programming #opensource #rust

10 min read

MakendranG

Oct 27 '22

Difference between Cluster Autoscaler & Karpenter

#kubernetes #aws #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Anamika

Oct 27 '22

Hacktoberfest-9 | My third year @Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #digitalocean

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Oct 21 '22

What's an Underrated Tool That More Developers Should Know About?

#discuss #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Unicorn Developer

Oct 7 '22

The check of the Rhino JavaScript engine or how the unicorn met the rhino

#java #javascript #opensource #codequality

23 min read

Erika for Tinybird

Oct 27 '22

ClickHouse Fundamentals: Part 1

#clickhouse #opensource #database #performance

2 min read

JerryMaoMao for ILLA Cloud

Oct 27 '22

Career Page build with ILLA

#webdev #opensource #startup #github

2 min read

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