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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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Alex Lakatos 🥑

Dec 9 '21

Releasing the funniest GitHub Action & Workflow

#showdev #actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

2 min read

AzisK

Dec 8 '21

How we build an open source app for animal shelters

#actionshackathon21 #opensource #animalshelter #pets

6 min read

Nik Lopin for Doka Guide

Dec 8 '21

Label automation at your fingertips

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #doka

4 min read

oz9un

Dec 7 '21

Developers' Collaborative Playlist

#actionshackathon21 #github #spotify #opensource

6 min read

Dec 7 '21

SafeCloset, a Secret Safe - Why and how I made it in Rust

#showdev #rust #opensource #cryptography

4 min read

Michael Haberman for Aspecto

Dec 7 '21

OpenTelemetry SDK and Collector Deployment Strategies

#webdev #opentelemetry #opensource #microservices

4 min read

Hemanth Krishna

Dec 7 '21

Action Paniker - Stimulate your senses physically when your build fails 🚨

#showdev #actionshackathon21 #opensource #iot

2 min read

Panshak

Nov 19 '21

I created a full stack open source invoicing application using the MERN stack

#react #javascript #mongodb #opensource

2 min read

Rohan Ravindra Kadam

Dec 7 '21

How to use Ngrok for tunnelling the local servers?

#programming #webdev #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Dec 7 '21

PWA-ize: open web pages in their own window on mobile

#showdev #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Dec 7 '21

Build and release go binaries for Mac and Linux in GitHub Actions using 2 approaches

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

5 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Dec 7 '21

Write More Code & Create Reusable Functions with Our New JavaScript Editor

#javascript #opensource #productivity #webdev

6 min read

TED Vortex (Teodor Eugen Duțulescu) for OpenSauced

Dec 7 '21

How to lint PRs and welcome contributors using GitHub Actions

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

2 min read

C Vamshi Krishna

Dec 18 '21

Download spotify music for no cost!

#python #opensource #spotify

1 min read

Nov 27 '21

Start contributing to Opensource as a web dev beginner

#webdev #beginners #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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