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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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Aug 24 '22

How I Built A Web Development Challenges Website With $0 (And You Can Too!)

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

10 min read

Aug 25 '22

An API Validation Aggravation

#api #openapi #opensource #swagger

4 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Aug 25 '22

Open Source Single Pane of Glass Monitoring | SigNoz

#devops #monitoring #opensource

6 min read

Roy for BLST

Aug 24 '22

Releasing Cherrybomb 0.7

#api #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Aug 24 '22

Volt - Free Django Seed Project

#django #opensource

3 min read

Daniel for BLST

Aug 23 '22

OAS is the most critical tool for API Developers

#webdev #programming #api #opensource

3 min read

Necati Özmen for Refine

Aug 24 '22

Using Material UI DataGrid component with refine app

#react #webdev #programming #opensource

12 min read

Alexey Timin for ReductStore

Aug 24 '22

Reduct Storage Python SDK v0.4.0 has been released

#news #python #opensource #reductstorage

1 min read

Aug 23 '22

Tips for Managing an Open-Source Project (with the Creator of Homebrew)

#discuss #opensource #devops #startup

3 min read

boroskoyo

Aug 24 '22

Sidekick Open Source Live Debugger : Get started in 5 mins

#opensource #testing #docker #tutorial

3 min read

Sebastian Huckleberry

Aug 24 '22

Use VS Code for Bug Reporting to Lower the Bar for New Contributors

#opensource #vscode #programming #github

3 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Aug 23 '22

Let's talk about Godot

#gamedev #opensource #godot

2 min read

Aug 23 '22

Launching Crawlee, the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js

#javascript #node #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Nathan

Aug 22 '22

The first Open-Sourced API security testing tool CI/CD integrated.

#security #api #opensource #rust

3 min read

Heloisa Moraes for Codacy

Aug 23 '22

How to contribute to an open source project

#opensource #programming #github #git

7 min read

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