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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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Safa Emhemed for Medusa

Dec 22 '22

The world’s best B2B ecommerce UX: Massey Ferguson (5/5)

#ux #opensource #webdev #programming

5 min read

Dec 22 '22

Comparing Google Civic API and Cicero API for availability

#api #opensource #tutorial #civictech

4 min read

Johannes Dienst

Dec 22 '22

Add Spellchecker to Your Node.js Project

#tutorial #opensource #node

3 min read

Muhammed Nazeem

Dec 22 '22

Build an Open Source NGL.link alternative with Next.js and the Courier API

#courier #nextjs #postgres #opensource

11 min read

Dec 21 '22

Refactoring. The beginning.

#opensource #devops #career #beginners

2 min read

Genne23v

Dec 11 '22

One Click to Optimize Images, Create Repo and Making Commit

#myphotohub #opensource #javascript #octokit

4 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Dec 21 '22

🤔 How can cyber-physical systems be more adaptable and flexible using microservices?

#cps #microservices #opensource #luos

1 min read

Gulnur Baimukhambetova

Dec 10 '22

2022 wrapped: open-source

#opensource #productivity #github #programming

2 min read

Dec 21 '22

Download Free Audiobooks from Reddit.

#tutorial #beginners #opensource #career

2 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Dec 10 '22

Building Streaming Applications with Cloudera SQL StreamBuilder and Apache Pulsar

#sql #flink #opensource

5 min read

Chris Farris for AWS Community Builders

Dec 20 '22

Enrich Splunk events with Steampipe

#opensource #nextjs #tailwindcss #saas

6 min read

Safa Emhemed for Medusa

Dec 20 '22

The world’s best B2B ecommerce UX: Amy Myers MD (3/5)

#ux #webdev #programming #opensource

5 min read

Matt Angelosanto for LogRocket

Dec 20 '22

How to build a Rust API with the builder pattern

#cloud #serverless #opensource

9 min read

Nebojsa Radakovic

Dec 20 '22

The Best Practices for Tech Writing

#tooling #opensource

9 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Dec 20 '22

My Journey In The Open Source World

#opensource #javascript #node #typescript

3 min read

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