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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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Sm0ke

Mar 15 '22

Soft Dashboard Laravel - Free Template

#laravel #dashboards #opensource

2 min read

Danglewood

Mar 17 '22

#FOSS Fintech In Python: Generating Trade Ideas With The OpenBB Terminal

#python #opensource #fintech

7 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 12 '22

React UI Kits - Open-Source and Free

#react #opensource #uikits

6 min read

dbelokon

Mar 16 '22

Celebrating Telescope's 3000th Issue and PR: Progress

#opensource #react #p5 #javascript

3 min read

De

Mar 16 '22

Internet Everywhere - DNS Tunnel 🚇

#linux #opensource

2 min read

kuwala

Mar 16 '22

The Paradigm Shift of Business Models in the Data Space is Real

#discuss #opensource #nocode #github

7 min read

Mar 16 '22

My open source contributions to Supabase

#opensource #programming #github #go

2 min read

Sanjay Singh Rajpoot

Mar 16 '22

How to start contributing to open source projects??

#opensource #webdev #programming #beginners

2 min read

Cassidy Williams for Remote

Apr 4 '22

Introducing phx_gen_solid

#elixir #opensource

5 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 14 '22

Soft UI React Native - Open-Source Template

#react #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15 '22

Why a "Standard Source Available License" doesn't exist yet?

#discuss #license #opensource

2 min read

DMetaSoul

Mar 15 '22

A new unified streaming and batch table storage solution similar to iceberg/hudi/delta lake

#programming #opensource #database #spark

2 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Mar 15 '22

How to efficiently manage software updates across the network of your multiple boards?

#embeddedsystems #electronics #devtool #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 14 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #104

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Kevan Y

Mar 15 '22

Telescope 2.8 release

#opensource

4 min read

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