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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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Francisco Zapata

Feb 6 '23

New features of VScode v1.75

#discuss #opensource #community

4 min read

John P. Rouillard

Feb 5 '23

Implementing a Command Palette and Task Timer (part 1)

#webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Feb 5 '23

Subtract days from a date in JavaScript without a library

#devto #announcement #opensource

3 min read

Code of Relevancy

Feb 5 '23

JavaScript's Optional Chaining (?.) Operator

#godot #opensource #networking

5 min read

Mahesh K

Feb 5 '23

Iris Dataset Analysis in R

#github #githunt #opensource

2 min read

mikekameta

Feb 5 '23

100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp for 2022 - Day 28 - Pomodoro GUI Application

#opensource #coding #github #howto

2 min read

Feb 4 '23

Svelte Email - Build and design emails with Svelte

#svelte #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Kabirou ALASSANE

Feb 5 '23

Créer un Carrousel en HTML CSS & JS

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Kayode

Feb 4 '23

The 20 Most Trending Open Source Tools for Ecommerce

#opensource #ecommerce #cms

8 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 1 '23

Building a software bill of materials (SBOM) using open source tools

#opensource #aws

6 min read

Feb 2 '23

Implement Single Sign On in Medusa

#javascript #programming #opensource #webdev

12 min read

ioana

Feb 2 '23

About:FOSDEM

#conference #opensource #fosdem #speaking

14 min read

Feb 2 '23

The tool that revolutionized my workflow. My experience with Vite

#webdev #productivity #opensource #vite

2 min read

iribama

Feb 1 '23

5 Open Source Tools for your Ecommerce Stacks

#opensource #ecommerce #medusajs #webdev

6 min read

Feb 1 '23

Building a Startup from Scratch: My Mistakes as CTO

#startup #programming #architecture #opensource

13 min read

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