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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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Shai Almog

Mar 7 '23

Open Source Maintenance is Community Organizing

#opensource #startup #github #community

6 min read

Sibelius Seraphini for Woovi

Mar 9 '23

env: node\r: No such file or directory

#debug #opensource #terminal

2 min read

Yahaya Oyinkansola

Mar 9 '23

How to send an email to 2 people easily with PHP

#discuss #codenewbie #opensource #welcome

3 min read

Mar 9 '23

Beginner’s guide to contributing to open source through documentation

#webdev #opensource #github #beginners

6 min read

Mar 9 '23

Django Bootstrap Login Template (How-To)

#django #opensource #security #tutorial

4 min read

Teja Kummarikuntla

Mar 8 '23

10 repositories to star if you are a Javascript developer

#opensource #javascript #typescript

4 min read

Mar 2 '23

9 Days of OpenAI

#ai #github #opensource

2 min read

Oliver for TerminusDB Community

Feb 16 '23

The Content Revolution

#news #opensource #showdev #writing

6 min read

Murtuzaali Surti

Mar 8 '23

Why I love Markdown

#webdev #opensource #programming #markdown

3 min read

Mar 8 '23

Redis OM Spring is 10x faster — How I contributed to this open source repository maintained by Redis

#redis #opensource #database #spring

8 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Mar 3 '23

How to automatically close your issues once you merge a PR

#github #opensource #management

2 min read

Odumuyiwa Teslim for Medusa

Mar 7 '23

11 Essential Considerations When Implementing an Ecommerce Cart

#opensource #webdev #javascript #programming

9 min read

Mar 8 '23

Apache-age: The best Open Source Graph Database Solution

#apacheage #postgresqextension #opensource #database

3 min read

Mar 8 '23

How To Generate Open Graph Tags in Any Website

#beginners #webdev #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 6 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #147

#opensource #aws

14 min read

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