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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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Asmit Malakannawar

Apr 9 '22

What is FOSSology and how to set it up?

#fossology #opensource #tutorial #tooling

4 min read

Ayomikun Sholademi

Apr 9 '22

Dynamic Components in React

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Tue

Apr 9 '22

3.0.0-alpha.0

#opensource

2 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Apr 8 '22

Get to know your DC motor: how to read a datasheet

#opensource #motor #tutorial #luos

1 min read

Chakit for Storyblok

Apr 8 '22

Add a headless CMS to React in 5 minutes

#javascript #react #opensource #headlesscms

6 min read

Sm0ke

Apr 7 '22

Material Kit React - Open-Source React Template

#react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Michael Wanyoike for Medusa

Apr 7 '22

Open Source Node.js Ecommerce Platform for Remix

#javascript #opensource #webdev #remix

17 min read

Ushieru Kokoran

Apr 7 '22

Total POS

#flutter #spanish #opensource #totalpos

2 min read

Krzysztof Platis

Apr 4 '22

How I became an Angular contributor 🙃

#watercooler #angular #opensource #zonejs

3 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Video Dev-Team Blog

Apr 7 '22

Media Server independent WebRTC player

#webrtc #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Heloisa Moraes for Codacy

Apr 7 '22

Useful GitHub repos

#github #javascript #programming #opensource

1 min read

DMetaSoul

Apr 7 '22

Details of 4 best opensource projects about big data you should try out（Ⅰ）

#opensource #dataengineering #bigdata #spark

5 min read

Adnan Rahić for Cube

Apr 7 '22

Building a visx Dashboard with Cube

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #opensource

10 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Apr 7 '22

Documentation is highly valued, but often overlooked

#opensource #github #tutorial #programming

1 min read

Apr 7 '22

Software Composition: building on the shoulders of giants

#devops #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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