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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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Jan 16 '22

How to Start Contributing to Open Source

#opensource #beginners #webdev

4 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Jan 13 '22

Make your first contribution to a GitHub Action!

#github #githubactions #devops #opensource

6 min read

Yusuf Turhan Papurcu for Golang

Jan 15 '22

Using BoltDB as internal database 💾

#go #database #programming #opensource

3 min read

Slava

Jan 14 '22

Optimize Your Webserver by Installing a Single NGINX Module

#showdev #opensource #linux #webdev

2 min read

Meat Boy

Jan 24 '22

What are the modern examples of Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish?

#discuss #microsoft #opensource #github

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jan 13 '22

How to build a Tailwind CSS pagination component with Flowbite

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial #webdev

5 min read

Heitor Ramon Ribeiro for Vue Storefront

Jan 14 '22

A Penny for Your Thoughts – Our Community Sponsorship Program is Live!

#opensource #sponsorship #vue #ecommerce

2 min read

Dima Grossman for novu

Jan 10 '22

How we reduced our nodejs monorepo build time by 70%

#javascript #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

Jan 14 '22

Appwrite 0.12 - Ask Me Anything

#news #appwrite #opensource #database

1 min read

Jan 13 '22

My 2022 Productivity Suite

#productivity #tooling #opensource #git

10 min read

Ali Moradi

Jan 14 '22

How practice and improve trade skills with demo trading on trading view with bar reply mode feature? (open source project)

#python #github #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

tczagany

Jan 14 '22

50 lines of JavaScript: animated source code statistics with Vizzu

#javascript #productivity #opensource #dataviz

7 min read

Sachin Chaurasiya

Jan 13 '22

How to show recent GitHub activities on your profile readme

#github #git #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Sall

Jan 13 '22

Feature-rich Syntax Highlighting For Zsh

#programming #productivity #opensource #zsh

5 min read

Jan 13 '22

Introducing Obsei

#showdev #python #ai #opensource

2 min read

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