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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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Sm0ke

Sep 29 '22

Check React Project Compilation Status in different environments - Free Tool

#tools #opensource #appseed

3 min read

Sep 25 '22

Hacktoberfest 2022: Preptember!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Ezeana Micheal for Techpro.club

Oct 1 '22

Listing techproclub to hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #programming #go

2 min read

Javid Mougamadou

Sep 30 '22

💻 Code-server : Awesome VS Code container on browser (Useful for Fast Cloud Deploy - Fix Corporate Issues)

#productivity #webdev #vscode #opensource

5 min read

Erika Heidi for Chainguard

Sep 30 '22

3 ways to improve your OSS project's resilience for Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #security #beginners

4 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Sep 27 '22

Explained in 5 Levels of Difficulty: Ecommerce by Medusa

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

5 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 30 '22

(VIDEO) Django Material Template - How to use it

#django #opensource

2 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Sep 30 '22

My Experience With GitHub Topic Branches

#python #opensource #github #git

3 min read

Sep 30 '22

palpatine supports markdown - minor release

#showdev #opensource #programming #cpp

2 min read

Sep 29 '22

Testkube: The Kubernetes-native testing framework

#kubernetes #devops #testing #opensource

3 min read

Budibase

Sep 28 '22

Announcing the Budibase Hackathon - Over $5K in prizes 🎉

#hackathon #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Sep 22 '22

Medusa Hackathon sign-up: Win Merch and Prizes up to $1,500 During Hacktoberfest

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

3 min read

Caleb!

Sep 27 '22

I reduced an npm package size by 50% with minification

#javascript #webperf #opensource #react

2 min read

Nevo David for novu

Sep 28 '22

Building a Kanban board with Node.js, React and Websockets 📝 ✨

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

18 min read

shrey vijayvargiya

Sep 28 '22

New currency in Software Development

#news #programming #opensource #webdev

8 min read

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