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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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Torsten Dittmann for Appwrite

Sep 14 '21

Lessons learned from building a WebSocket server

#opensource #serverless #php #pubsub

7 min read

Luigi Zaccagnini

Sep 15 '21

Octo: The Open Source Static Site Generator

#showdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Arnold Ho

Sep 16 '21

When and how to contribute to open source projects

#beginners #opensource #github #codenewbie

4 min read

Minh Hang Nguyen

Sep 16 '21

NodeJs - Static site generator Release 0.1

#opensource #javascript #osd600

2 min read

Sep 16 '21

How to Participate in Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource #devjournal

9 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 11 '21

FlowBite - Tailwind CSS Components Library

#showdev #opensource #tailwindcss

5 min read

Vadim Smirnov for Medusa

Sep 15 '21

Announcing Create Medusa App: One command for a full-stack headless e-commerce setup

#opensource #jamstack #javascript #node

3 min read

Eric Yi

Sep 16 '21

Use Prometheus and Grafana to Visualize ISP Packet Loss

#opensource

2 min read

ThemeSelection for ThemeSelection

Sep 14 '21

Best 15+ Open Source React JS-Based Admin Dashboard Templates 2024💥

#opensource #react #webdev #javascript

14 min read

Appsmith for Appsmith

Sep 15 '21

Building an E-commerce Store using Appsmith and Postgres

#showdev #opensource #database #postgres

8 min read

Divyansh Tripathi

Sep 16 '21

How to Write Beautiful and Meaningful README.md

#javascript #opensource #github #git

5 min read

Sep 15 '21

How to create an GitHub Special Repository for Organisation

#github #organisation #readme #opensource

2 min read

Vincent Villafuerte

Sep 14 '21

Helping you to build your Personal Brand in Tech

#opensource #career #beginners #motivation

4 min read

Sep 13 '21

8 resources to start with opensource immediately

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #github

3 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Sep 14 '21

August: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#opensource #meta

2 min read

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