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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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Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Nov 2 '21

How to Create the Perfect README for Your Open Source Project

#opensource #github #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Francesco Menghi

Nov 19 '21

Fetching the Github API

#github #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Sebastian Rindom for Medusa

Nov 19 '21

Why we migrated to TypeScript after all

#javascript #typescript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 18 '21

Windster - Tailwind CSS admin dashboard interface [MIT License]

#showdev #tailwindcss #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Sherfin Shamsudeen

Nov 18 '21

How to build a cryptocurrency dashboard in 10 minutes using ToolJet

#javascript #tutorial #lowcode #opensource

4 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 17 '21

React Django - Open-Source Full-Stack Seed Project

#webdev #react #django #opensource

3 min read

Iacovos Constantinou

Nov 18 '21

Create a PR to automatically fix code linting errors

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Ritvik Shukla for WebX DAO

Nov 18 '21

Companies looking for people to hire!

#web3 #web3community #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 16 '21

Laravel React - Purity Dashboard (Free Product)

#webdev #laravel #react #opensource

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Nov 18 '21

🆕 New Pyluos shell in the Luos Python lib

#embedded #python #opensource #luos

1 min read

Nov 16 '21

Automatically update your CONTRIBUTORS file with this GitHub Action + Workflow

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #contributors

2 min read

aisha

Nov 17 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021: through the eyes of a beginner

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

3 min read

Nov 16 '21

You can now add projects to personal lists on GitHub

#news #opensource #github #javascript

1 min read

Oliver Juhl for Medusa

Nov 15 '21

Open-source Node.js commerce engine for Strapi

#opensource #javascript #webdev #headless

5 min read

Rohan Ravindra Kadam

Nov 17 '21

How to implement OAuth2 Login Using (Single Sign-On) Google — Part 1

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

2 min read

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