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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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 29 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #110

#opensource #aws

13 min read

DMetaSoul

Apr 30 '22

The design concept of an almighty Opensource project about machine learning platform

#machinelearning #algorithms #deeplearning #opensource

13 min read

Mahmoud Harmouch

Apr 27 '22

Showcase Your Open Source Contributions Using Gource.

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #git #github

11 min read

ozkalai for Refine

Apr 29 '22

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Working on Open Source Projects

#opensource #javascript #react #webdev

5 min read

Apr 30 '22

#opensource

#opensource #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Apr 29 '22

Why Wasm is the perfect runtime for server-side applications.

#discuss #opensource #webassembly #beginners

4 min read

Apr 28 '22

Adding dark/light mode specific images to your GitHub readme page

#opensource #tutorial #html #github

1 min read

Christian Michael for Contao Open Source CMS

Apr 29 '22

Get in touch with Contao CMS

#opensource #contao #cms #symfony

3 min read

Yann Tavernier for Gravitee

Apr 29 '22

Troubleshoot your APIs with Debug Mode

#graviteeio #api #debug #opensource

11 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Apr 29 '22

How to use a custom file input element with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #tutorial #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Apr 29 '22

Negative interactions are infrequent but highly visible, with consequences for project activity

#opensource #github #luos

1 min read

Kevan Y

Apr 18 '22

Hard bug fixed by a simple fix

#opensource

4 min read

Georgie

Apr 28 '22

Dev x Appwrite Hackathon: #3 CORS Challenges when using Appwrite on Gitpod

#appwritehack #javascript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Julia Heitner for RippleX Developers

Apr 28 '22

XRPL Grants Welcomes New Expert Judges for Wave 3

#xrpl #xrplgrants #opensource

6 min read

Brandon Roberts for Appwrite

Apr 27 '22

Building Your Own Google Docs Clone with Flutter

#appwrite #opensource #flutter

2 min read

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