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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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Muthu Annamalai Venkatachalam

Aug 11 '21

How To Contribute To Open-Source Projects As A Beginner

#github #opensource #beginners #tutorial

5 min read

Aug 11 '21

Build long-lasting customer relations through Chatwoot, the ultimate opensource customer engagement suite.

#chatwoot #customersupport #opensource #customerengagement

9 min read

Aug 6 '21

Supabase - An OpenSource Firebase Alternative

#supabase #opensource #database #postgres

5 min read

Aug 7 '21

Faker.js Generator - Never write sample data manually again ⌛

#opensource #webdev #sideprojects #productivity

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Aug 9 '21

How to use Luos with Python? Step 1 - Install and config Pyluos

#python #luos #embedded #opensource

1 min read

Aug 8 '21

Error on rails assets:precompile on production (solved)

#opensource #lalomenu

1 min read

Clean Code Studio

Aug 7 '21

Fluent JavaScript Stringable (Laravel Inspired)

#javascript #laravel #npm #opensource

11 min read

Aug 5 '21

My Journey Of Building pascaline 🧮

#showdev #opensource #javascript #css

5 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jul 20 '21

Forem Self-Host is Now Officially Supported

#news #forem #opensource #meta

5 min read

Aug 7 '21

Introduction to Docker Compose

#docker #devops #opensource

1 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Aug 6 '21

July: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#opensource #meta

2 min read

Aug 6 '21

Developers needed – Help getting to SvelteKit 1.0

#svelte #opensource

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Aug 5 '21

Free and open source Laravel admin dashboard interface

#showdev #laravel #opensource

5 min read

Erin Schaffer for Educative

Aug 4 '21

Beginner Kafka tutorial: Get started with distributed systems

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Felippe Regazio

Aug 4 '21

Logflake, a NodeJS Console Logger with superpowers

#showdev #opensource #node #javascript

4 min read

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