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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

Aug 18 '22

How I Created a One-Page Swag Store in 15 minutes

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

7 min read

Aug 18 '22

Using OpenStreetMap For Your Web Projects

#opensource #openstreetmap #node

5 min read

Aug 18 '22

Here be docs

#todayilearned #crystal #programming #opensource

3 min read

Shloka

Aug 16 '22

Contributing to docs!

#documentation #opensource #beginners #devjournal

2 min read

Vlladie Condeno

Aug 18 '22

Create API Using AWS Rekognition to return detected faces in uploaded image - Nodejs & React

#aws #node #react #opensource

2 min read

Aug 12 '22

SVG + CSS Spinners!

#showdev #webdev #opensource #css

1 min read

Sam

Aug 18 '22

Request ACM certificate with DNS validation in Go

#aws #go #opensource

2 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Video Dev-Team Blog

Aug 17 '22

How to setup a lab environment for WebRTC broadcast streaming

#webrtc #opensource #tutorial #streaming

5 min read

Max Kray

Aug 17 '22

Top 5 Open-Source Log Shippers (alternatives to Logstash) in 2022

#logging #logmanagement #opensource #centralizedlog

7 min read

Aug 15 '22

How to Build Great Open-Source DevTools: With Max Howell (Creator of Homebrew)

#todayilearned #tooling #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Awosise Oluwaseun

Aug 12 '22

I got my first Pull Request merged!

#opensource #beginners

3 min read

Takshak Ramteke

Aug 15 '22

🗿 Get Some (Github) Action

#docker #github #beginners #opensource

7 min read

NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

Aug 15 '22

Start using Toolbox in Fedora Silverblue

#linux #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Tomer Barnea for novu

Aug 10 '22

How to raise funds for an open-source company 💵

#discuss #webdev #opensource #javascript

5 min read

Aug 13 '22

Be Separate From Crowd (Freelance Web Dev)

#webdev #career #opensource #freelancer

2 min read

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