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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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ankeliu for Stellar Development Foundation

Mar 3 '22

Build NFTs on Stellar during 48-hour hackathon

#challenge #javascript #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Brandon Roberts for Appwrite

Mar 2 '22

Building Custom Cloud Functions using NodeJS with Appwrite!

#appwrite #node #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Agam

Mar 3 '22

Self-hosted newsletter tech stack for $0-7/mo

#newsletter #selfhost #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Ali Naqvi

Mar 3 '22

PipyJS - A functional style JavaScript engine for programming Pipy

#javascript #opensource #networkproxy #pipy

6 min read

Jeet Patel

Mar 3 '22

Everything You Need to Know About Shopify Development and Marketing

#webdev #devops #css #opensource

3 min read

James 'Dante' Midzi for Medusa

Mar 2 '22

The Headless Ecommerce and CMS Combination you have to know

#javascript #opensource #webdev #tutorial

8 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 2 '22

How to install Tailwind CSS with Svelte and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #svelte #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Alexandra Quinn

Mar 3 '22

Operationalizing Deep Learning With Minimal Effort by Automating MLOps

#deeplearning #devops #opensource #machinelearning

3 min read

Mar 2 '22

An Open Source DevOps Toolchain Manager

#opensource #devops #tooling

2 min read

gus

Mar 2 '22

6502 Math and Strings Part II

#opensource #assembly #6502 #assemblylanguage

3 min read

Diego (Relatable Code)

Mar 2 '22

Step-By-Step guide for the first time Open Source contribution

#webdev #opensource #programming #softwaredevelopment

7 min read

Yulin

Mar 2 '22

How to Install Google OR-Tools on Apple M1 ARM64?

#programming #tutorial #python #opensource

3 min read

Mandy Moore for New Relic

Mar 2 '22

Open Source From Day 1 – Make Your Repo Shine with Eyar Zilberman

#webdev #programming #opensource #podcast

23 min read

James 'Dante' Midzi

Mar 2 '22

The Language Hub - Netlify x Hashnode Hackathon Submission

#hackathon #netlify #nextjs #opensource

7 min read

Eionel

Feb 9 '22

How to Build & Scale a Useful Open Source Technology

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #developer

6 min read

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