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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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Sm0ke

Nov 23 '21

Django Star Admin - Open-source / Bootstrap 5 / Docker / CookieCutter

#webdev #django #dashboards #opensource

3 min read

Suvraneel Bhuin

Nov 24 '21

Automated Self-assigns + Labeler + Contributors list

#actionshackathon21 #opensource #github #contributors

4 min read

Nov 23 '21

Tesla Cybertruck Concept (NextJS + ChakraUI + ThreeFiber)

#actionshackathon21 #opensource #github #beginners

1 min read

Ruheza, NS

Nov 21 '21

Contribute like a Pro. A guide for git-branching model (Part 1)

#git #opensource #agile #github

2 min read

Leo Ho

Nov 23 '21

I wrote a script to bring Chrome DevTools to Android

#opensource #webdev #programming #javascript

1 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

Nov 23 '21

Levelling as a Developer with Content Creation and Community Building #DevRel

#discuss #devrel #career #opensource

1 min read

Adnan Rahić for Cube

Nov 23 '21

Cube Cloud Deep Dive: Starting a New Cube App

#tutorial #opensource #analytics #bigdata

9 min read

Suchitra

Nov 20 '21

Know about 10 popular open-source projects in the end of 2022!

#opensource #beginners #programming #devops

3 min read

Nov 3 '21

Depp - Basic Usage and Features

#typescript #monorepos #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Nov 23 '21

Unicode Characters

#javascript #learnedsomethingnew #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Nov 22 '21

GitHub Actions Hackathon update ⏰

#actionshackathon21 #actionshackathon #githubactions #opensource

3 min read

Nov 23 '21

Macbook Pro Keyboard with Touchbar with HTML/CSS

#webdev #opensource #html #css

1 min read

Farhan

Nov 23 '21

Design Patterns in Kubernetes Codebase

#go #programming #design #opensource

18 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 22 '21

AWS open source news and updates #91

#opensource #aws

16 min read

Nov 18 '21

Everything about super tokens - an open source alternative to Auth0, Firebase Auth, and AWS Cognito.

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

4 min read

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