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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.

submission guidelines

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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Aviv Mor for krud.dev

Jul 18 '22

My journey to defeat the evil boiler-plate code

#kotlin #programming #opensource

3 min read

SeaQL

Jul 18 '22

What's new in SeaORM 0.9.0

#rust #githunt #opensource #github

5 min read

Suraj Vishwakarma

Jul 15 '22

How to contribute to an Open Source project as a Beginner - The Flow

#opensource #beginners #javascript #github

6 min read

David Large for CloudCannon

Jul 17 '22

Introducing Pagefind: Static Low-bandwidth Search at Scale

#webdev #search #jamstack #opensource

5 min read

Jul 17 '22

A deep-dive into browser fingerprinting and privacy

#privacy #opensource #security #cybersecurity

3 min read

Jul 17 '22

A simple NextJS blog template for developers [Open Source]

#javascript #react #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Fahimul Kabir Chowdhury

Jul 17 '22

Top 10 Python OpenCV Basic Functions - Tech2 etc

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Sm0ke

Jul 16 '22

Soft UI Dashboard - Free Django Template

#django #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jul 16 '22

7 Newborn Open Source Repositories

#webdev #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Jul 15 '22

GitHub's non-code features

#github #beginners #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Jul 15 '22

We raised $8M Seed round for our open source Shopify challenger

#showdev #javascript #startup #opensource

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jul 15 '22

Show dev: I built a free collection of skeleton loaders using Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #opensource #webdev #programming

8 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 15 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #120

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Andrea Liliana Griffiths for GitHub

Jul 26 '22

Cómo crear un perfil para GitHub Sponsors

#github #opensource #spanish #programming

6 min read

MakendranG

Jul 15 '22

Key Components of Kubernetes

#kubernetes #beginners #cloud #opensource

4 min read

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