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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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Jul 19 '23

Lightweight Abstract Repository for NestJS

#webdev #opensource #mongodb #nestjs

6 min read

Arek Nawo for Vrite

Jul 18 '23

Vrite Editor: Open-Source WYSIWYG Markdown Editor

#opensource #productivity #writing #webdev

6 min read

Salah Eddine Lalami for IDURAR AI , Inc | Where Ai Build Software

Jul 17 '23

Best Animation packages for React.js , every frontend developer should use it

#react #javascript #opensource #animation

3 min read

Jul 19 '23

Weekly web development resources #158

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

2 min read

Jul 19 '23

If anyone can change Open Source code then how can we trust it?

#opensource #beginners #programming

1 min read

Jul 18 '23

Unmasking Ghost Parameters, or How to Save Time and Money

#opensource #devops #tutorial #productivity

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 10 '23

How to Talk About Your Open Source Experience in a Tech Interview

#opensource #career #interview

10 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 17 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #165

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Jul 18 '23

Our Journey In The Open Source World - spyone

#javascript #opensource #github #git

2 min read

Lingen Liu

Jul 18 '23

Is Oracle Linux A Reliable Cloned RHEL Linux

#linux #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 12 '23

#100DaysOfOSS: Growing Skills and Real-World Experience

#challenge #opensource #github #career

5 min read

Salah Eddine Lalami for IDURAR AI , Inc | Where Ai Build Software

Jul 17 '23

Why you should use emoji in github commit 🐛 ✨ 💄

#opensource #github #git #productivity

3 min read

jossse69

Jul 17 '23

Introducing PETSCIITile Framework - Building Tile-Based Games with ASCII and Graphics!

#showdev #refinehackathon #csharp #opensource

2 min read

Jul 18 '23

Build a Slack Chatbot using MindsDB and OpenAI GPT Model: A Step-by-Step Guide

#opensource #tutorial #ai #developer

7 min read

Julia Heitner for RippleX Developers

Jul 17 '23

XRPL Grants Wave 5 Awardees - Driving Innovation in the XRPL Ecosystem

#xrpl #xrplgrants #blockchain #opensource

4 min read

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