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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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Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Sep 13 '22

What are your Favorite Developer Communities?

#discuss #programming #opensource #watercooler

1 min read

Jake Barnby for Appwrite

Sep 14 '22

Migrate Firebase Users to Appwrite

#opensource #appwrite #migration #tutorial

4 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Sep 14 '22

Rwar – A Simple Static Site Generator Written in Python

#opensource #python #github #git

4 min read

Sep 14 '22

Tools Required For Backend Development

#javascript #node #api #opensource

4 min read

Ian Jennings for Replayable

Sep 14 '22

How to improve the DX of your readme with embeddable demos

#tutorial #devrel #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Nevo David for novu

Sep 12 '22

Building an interactive screen-sharing app with Puppeteer and React 🤯

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

12 min read

Leonardo Montini

Sep 10 '22

Akka will no longer be Open Source

#discuss #opensource #java #scala

1 min read

Matej Bačo for Appwrite

Sep 12 '22

Appwrite Loves Open Source: Why I Chose To Sponsor Offen

#webdev #programming #opensource #security

4 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Sep 11 '22

💰 Get paid while contributing to Open Source

#opensource #github #career

5 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 11 '22

Django OAuth for Github - Datta Able (free product)

#django #oauth #opensource

4 min read

Sep 12 '22

3 Tips to tidy up your ES6 imports

#devops #opensource

3 min read

Raffi Sarkissian for Lago

Sep 1 '22

😵‍💫 Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers

#billing #opensource

9 min read

Sep 10 '22

Stable Diffusion: Tutorials, Resources, and Tools

#tutorial #machinelearning #stablediffusion #opensource

7 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 9 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #126

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Sep 9 '22

Nhost: An Open Source Backend as a Service for Web and Mobile Apps

#beginners #database #opensource #graphql

8 min read

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