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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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Juri Strumpflohner for Nx

May 25 '22

How Lerna just got 10x faster

#monorepo #javascript #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

May 24 '22

How I Created a Comic Book Store with Medusa, Gatsby, PayPal, and MeiliSearch

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

12 min read

Kunal

May 25 '22

My Experience with AstroJS

#javascript #astro #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Everly Precia Suresh for Appwrite

May 24 '22

Appwrite Storage Meets Backblaze B2

#opensource #appwrite #tutorial #cloud

4 min read

May 25 '22

Taking Open Source contributions and communities to next level with the Reward System

#opensource #web3

3 min read

Dan Ribbens for Payload CMS

May 24 '22

Payload is now completely free and open source

#opensource #javascript #webdev #node

4 min read

Sohini Pattanayak for Entando

May 24 '22

Do you think Composable?

#composable #beginners #k8s #opensource

2 min read

ZigRazor

May 24 '22

MicroService Framework in C++

#cpp #programming #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Everly Precia Suresh for Appwrite

May 23 '22

Appwrite Storage Meets Wasabi Cloud Storage

#opensource #appwrite #tutorial

3 min read

Chell

May 24 '22

Build Static Blog with several lines of HTML and MD

#discuss #webdev #opensource #react

1 min read

alesbe

May 24 '22

I made a Sorting Visualizer!

#showdev #cpp #programming #opensource

1 min read

Nicolas Frizzarin for Playful Programming Angular

May 24 '22

Le futur d'Angular (part 1)

#angular #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

May 24 '22

Use TiDB Cloud to Analyze GitHub Events in 10 Minutes

#discuss #github #opensource #cloud

4 min read

May 23 '22

Make your first open-source contribution

#git #github #programming #opensource

2 min read

May 23 '22

ActiveAdmin vs ToolJet

#opensource #tooljet #framework

4 min read

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