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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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Sm0ke

Jan 18 '22

Flask 2.x Release - With Free Samples

#flask #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Jan 16 '22

Turn a Shopify backend open-source and headless in less than 10 minutes

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

6 min read

Jan 18 '22

MLH made me better at learning!

#mlhgrad #opensource

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 17 '22

AWS open source news and updates #96

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Savannah Copland 👋

Jan 17 '22

Exploiting IndexedDB API information leaks in Safari 15

#webdev #privacy #javascript #opensource

7 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jan 17 '22

How to install Flowbite and Tailwind CSS with Laravel

#laravel #tailwindcss #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 17 '22

Free Django v4 Starter - Soft UI Dashboard

#webdev #django #python #opensource

2 min read

Aniket Pal

Jan 17 '22

Urge to build CLIs : Beginners Eye🚀

#productivity #opensource #beginners #go

2 min read

Navaneeth Pk for ToolJet

Jan 17 '22

12 ways to get more GitHub stars for your open-source project

#opensource #javascript #github #webdev

5 min read

Jan 17 '22

What are the repositories in the Debian based Linux?

#linux #tutorial #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Jan 17 '22

Fun Experiment: Bringing lazy execution to JS!

#javascript #webdev #npm #opensource

1 min read

Štěpán Granát for Tolgee

Jan 17 '22

Taking localization to i18next level

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

3 min read

Hassan El Mghari

Jan 17 '22

Leading developer relations at a Silicon Valley Startup

#productivity #career #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Akbar Ali

Jan 16 '22

How I made an Online E-book store and reader

#django #javascript #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Yigit S

Jan 2 '22

10 Resources for Web Developers

#webdev #css #html #opensource

2 min read

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