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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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Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Sep 8 '21

Appsmith Roundup: Build CRUD Apps with one-click, Move Multiple Widgets, New Icon Widget and Omnibar

#opensource #javascript #development #community

3 min read

Jake Barnby for Appwrite

Sep 6 '21

Appwrite, Android and Realtime

#news #android #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Sep 7 '21

Coffementation: Documenting Virtual Coffee

#opensource #documentation #community

2 min read

Pasca Vlad

Sep 7 '21

How to make money with Open source, 5 steps to becoming a full-stack developer, and more

#codenewbie #beginners #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 7 '21

Reading and writing data across different AWS accounts with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow v2.x

#opensource #aws

15 min read

BekahHW for Virtual Coffee

Sep 7 '21

Preptember: Getting ready for Hacktoberfest

#codenewbie #community #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Sep 7 '21

The CLI that looks at JSON in pretty

#rust #opensource #tooling #json

7 min read

Sep 7 '21

Create nice animation for your website by scripting SVGs

#webdev #opensource

1 min read

Vadim Smirnov for Medusa

Sep 6 '21

Setting up a Next.js storefront for your Medusa project

#jamstack #nextjs #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 6 '21

AWS open source news and updates #80

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Sebastian Rindom for Medusa

Sep 6 '21

Introducing Medusa: Your building blocks for amazing digital commerce experiences

#showdev #javascript #node #opensource

6 min read

Seb

Sep 4 '21

Installing Nginx on Ubuntu

#linux #opensource #beginners #nginx

3 min read

Temitope Agbaje

Sep 5 '21

My journey into open-source

#opensource #beginners #webdev #writing

2 min read

Damodar Lohani for Appwrite

Sep 4 '21

Getting Started with Appwrite Realtime for Flutter

#news #flutter #opensource #serverless

7 min read

‪Kareem Negm‬‏

Sep 4 '21

How to get Clone a private Github repo!?

#github #git #opensource #programming

1 min read

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