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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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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jan 21 '22

How to build a toast (notification) component with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #webdev #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Karan Pratap Singh

Jan 20 '22

Distributed messaging with NATS

#microservices #backend #opensource

4 min read

Jan 22 '22

Make Your First Contribution To Open Source

#beginners #opensource #productivity #career

1 min read

Kingkor Roy Tirtho

Jan 16 '22

Choosing Open Source License Wisely🤔

#opensource #programming #motivation #career

6 min read

Edi🦕

Jan 21 '22

My experience to become Outreachy Intern for Apache Airflow

#opensource #outreachy

5 min read

Matej Bačo for Appwrite

Jan 18 '22

Did we just build a Netflix clone with Appwrite?

#javascript #opensource #programming #webdev

9 min read

Matej Bačo for Appwrite

Jan 19 '22

Introducing Almost Netflix: Netflix clone built with Vue and Appwrite

#showdev #opensource #javascript #webdev

19 min read

Anthony Viard for Entando

Jan 20 '22

My top 3 advanced features you can’t miss on GitHub Actions

#github #devops #opensource

5 min read

Jan 19 '22

All About ArgoCD, A Beginner's Guide

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #github

7 min read

Pranav

Jan 17 '22

Rare & useful Git commands summarized + solution to difficult scenarios while using Git

#github #devops #git #opensource

5 min read

Siddhi Bhanushali

Jan 17 '22

Git Series - Part I

#git #opensource #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

Bishwas Bhandari

Jan 19 '22

Fiverr API: Scrape Fiverr in seconds

#api #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jan 16 '22

How to build a Tailwind CSS timeline component with Flowbite

#tailwindcss #webdev #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Jan 19 '22

The Semantic Emptiness of Objects in the If Statement

#java #opensource #programming #productivity

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 17 '22

Django v4 Release Summary - Free Samples Included

#django #webdev #opensource #python

3 min read

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