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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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Feb 28 '22

9 Websites To Get Free Illustrations Every Web Developer Should Know

#webdev #opensource #ux #tooling

2 min read

Feb 14 '22

Lessons learned from maintaining a fork

#discuss #webdev #opensource #github

5 min read

SeaQL

Feb 16 '22

An async & dynamic ORM for Rust!

#showdev #rust #githunt #opensource

3 min read

Andrew

Feb 16 '22

Would you like an OpenSource Engineering Handbook Template ? 🚀

#opensource #githunt #devops #devrel

1 min read

Paula Santamaría

Feb 15 '22

A Twitch chatbot powered by Notion

#showdev #opensource #twitch #notion

4 min read

Feb 16 '22

Join a new open-source community!

#opensource #webdev #beginners

2 min read

ThemeSelection for ThemeSelection

Feb 15 '22

Sneat Open Source Bootstrap 5 HTML Admin Template Is Here...!!🤩

#webdev #opensource #html #programming

3 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Feb 14 '22

Automating GitHub Org Invitations

#github #devops #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Sebastian Rindom for Medusa

Feb 14 '22

Introducing Medusa.express: The easiest way to set up an ecommerce store

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Feb 14 '22

Using Feature Flags to troll our competitor without a line of code 😃

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Feb 14 '22

How to build a sidebar component with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #webdev #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Sm0ke

Feb 14 '22

Impact Design System - Open-Source Bootstrap Template

#webdev #opensource #bootstrap

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 14 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #100

#opensource #aws

11 min read

Feb 14 '22

Generate a dynamic Stackoverflow profile for your README

#javascript #opensource #react #svelte

1 min read

Jan 23 '22

Want to learn about git and GitHub in a more fun way?

#git #github #opensource #beginners

1 min read

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