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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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Rajko Radovanovic

Jan 12 '22

Top Github repo trends in 2021

#opensource #github #webdev #ai

13 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Jan 12 '22

Launching: Open-source one-page checkout

#showdev #opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

Sachin Chaurasiya

Jan 8 '22

How To Show Your Latest Blogs On GitHub Profile

#github #git #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Nicolas Rocha Pereira

Jan 10 '22

O que são RFCs e como elas funcionam na linguagem PHP

#php #opensource #programming

6 min read

William McGonagle

Dec 31 '21

🤯 How to Get More Stars on GitHub!

#discuss #tutorial #opensource #github

1 min read

mainrs

Jan 11 '22

Rustifying my terminal

#rust #opensource

3 min read

Saurav Jain for Amplication

Jan 10 '22

Why I joined Amplication.

#opensource #computerscience #webdev #experience

5 min read

Jan 11 '22

Open Source Chakra UI / Material UI Dashboard featured on Product Hunt

#react #webdev #opensource #css

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 10 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #95

#opensource #aws

18 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Jan 11 '22

I built a NextJS/Tailwind portfolio template for you to use!

#opensource #design #nextjs #tailwindcss

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jan 10 '22

How to set up Vue with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#showdev #tailwindcss #opensource #vue

4 min read

Jan 10 '22

Breaking of two NPM libraries show that everything isn't right in FOSS ecosystem

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

4 min read

Jan 10 '22

How to sunset your OSS Project with Grace

#opensource #career #javascript

2 min read

Jan 10 '22

📦 Top alternatives for "colors" and "faker"

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

2 min read

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot for Tauri

Jan 10 '22

Sustaining Community

#opensource #tauri #sustainability #productivity

3 min read

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