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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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Jun 20 '22

Introducing the Offen Consent Tool

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Sm0ke

Jun 20 '22

React App Generator - Soft UI Dashboard (free service)

#webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

Geoapify

Jun 20 '22

How To Get OpenStreetMap (OSM) Data For Your App

#opensource #maps #api #osm

6 min read

EMQ Technologies for EMQ Technologies

Jun 20 '22

How to Use MQTT in The Electron Project

#electron #opensource #tutorial #mqtt

6 min read

yash

Jun 19 '22

GSoC Blog - Week 1

#gsoc #vue #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Jun 19 '22

Coding Period GSoC'22 | Week 1

#gsoc #testing #opensource #career

1 min read

Prudence97

May 29 '22

Creating and assigning an issue to someone on GitHub

#github #opensource #prudyopensourceseries #codenewbie

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 17 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #117

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Jun 18 '22

GSoC 2022 CircuitVerse | Week 1 Report

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

2 min read

Jun 11 '22

The End of Atom

#opensource #github #shutdowns #microsoft

3 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

May 19 '22

How to use Luos with Python?

#python #opensource #microservices #luos

1 min read

mstmdev

Jun 17 '22

gofs-A cross-platform file synchronization tool out of the box based on golang

#go #opensource #github #programming

9 min read

awalias for Supabase

Jun 17 '22

Python data loading with Supabase

#python #opensource #supabas #database

5 min read

Dalu46 for Medusa

Jun 16 '22

Which Frontend Framework to Pick for Your E-commerce Storefront?

#opensource #webdev #javascript #programming

7 min read

Jun 15 '22

SVG Spinners!

#showdev #webdev #opensource #beginners

1 min read

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