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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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Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Apr 5 '22

Headless Explained to a 5-Year-Old

#beginners #opensource #architecture #webdev

4 min read

Nikunj R. Prajapati

Apr 10 '22

Deepgram x DEV Hackathon Project DeepXGrammar

#hackwithdg #python #opensource

1 min read

Brandon Roberts for Appwrite

Apr 9 '22

Appwrite Community Report #1

#appwrite #opensource

2 min read

Alistair Shepherd

Apr 10 '22

Managing tracking consent with Cead Consent

#javascript #privacy #opensource

7 min read

Danglewood

Apr 10 '22

Triplet Command: One Command, Three Outcomes; All Info

#showdev #python #opensource #openapi

6 min read

Cassidy Williams

Mar 18 '22

The Productivity apps I use in 2022

#productivity #applications #todo #opensource

4 min read

Apr 9 '22

Release 0.23.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - feature release enabling French

#release #opensource #githubaction #spelling

2 min read

Amazing

Apr 9 '22

3.0 Alpha #2: Core feature for mobile app

#opensource #reactnative #javascript #mobile

3 min read

Apr 9 '22

Secure your Kubernetes secrets easily with Trousseau

#opensource #kubernetes #devops #security

2 min read

Jörg Rech

Apr 9 '22

State of OSS Monetization 2022 - Survey Results

#opensource #monetization

6 min read

Apr 9 '22

How I started My Open-Source contribution Journey.

#webdev #frontend #javascript #opensource

1 min read

FuryCodz

Apr 9 '22

All the tools you need in the same website !

#programming #tutorial #opensource #testing

1 min read

Apr 9 '22

An Intro to Version Control

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Danglewood

Apr 9 '22

#FOSS Fintech in Python: How To Use The Historical Command In The OpenBB Terminal!

#tutorial #python #opensource #100daysofcode

3 min read

Sm0ke

Apr 8 '22

Laravel 9 - Open-Source Full-Stack Starters

#laravel #opensource

4 min read

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