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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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Sep 23 '21

Introducing Leaf PHP 3

#php #opensource #laravel #leafphp

6 min read

Minh Hang Nguyen

Sep 24 '21

Collaboration and pull requests

#opensource #osd600

3 min read

lisahui

Sep 24 '21

Ecosystem Tools: Nebula Graph Dashboard for Monitoring

#database #opensource #devops

3 min read

lisahui

Sep 24 '21

Nebula Graph Source Code Explained: RBO

#opensource #devops #database #git

5 min read

AnkithaTech11 for Aviyel Inc

Sep 23 '21

Coffee & Code: Getting Started with Gatsby Documentation on Docz by Tapas Adhikary

#docz #opensource #documentation #coding

1 min read

Rishabh Dwivedi

Sep 23 '21

What is Hacktoberfest? Best opensource program for beginners!

#showdev #opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev

1 min read

Sep 23 '21

HELP!!!

#keycloak #opensource #sso

1 min read

MindaugasLaganeckas

Sep 23 '21

DevOps development guidelines

#devops #opensource #design

4 min read

Francesco Improta

Sep 23 '21

CSSUI - Interactive Components in Pure CSS

#css #opensource #html #webdev

2 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 22 '21

React Berry Dashboard - 360 Degrees Review

#react #dashboards #opensource

4 min read

Sep 23 '21

Getting started with pull requests

#opensource

3 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Sep 17 '21

From Zero to Hero: Quick Tips to Navigating Open Source Like a Pro

#opensource #githubactions #github

4 min read

Sep 22 '21

How I Prepare The Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Vadim Smirnov for Medusa

Sep 21 '21

Integrate Segment to your Medusa project

#node #javascript #opensource #twilio

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 20 '21

AWS open source news and updates #82

#opensource #aws

14 min read

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