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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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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

Aug 14 '22

Publish your first NPM package - next step towards open-source

#npm #node #opensource #git

5 min read

Sm0ke

Aug 14 '22

Soft UI Dashboard - Open-Source Flask Starter

#softui #flask #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 13 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #124

#opensource #aws

15 min read

ThemeSelection for ThemeSelection

Aug 10 '22

The Best 10+ Open Source Headless CMS 2025

#webdev #programming #cms #opensource

17 min read

Hollow Man

Aug 13 '22

My Summer of Bitcoin 2022 Project - CI for CADR

#devops #productivity #opensource #blockchain

9 min read

Hollow Man

Aug 13 '22

Microsoft Reinforcement Learning Open Source Fest 2022 – Native CSV Parser

#machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

Hollow Man

Aug 13 '22

Tencent Rhino-bird Open-source Training Program 2022 – SunEC sm2p256v1 Key Pairs Generation

#opensource #java

7 min read

Aug 7 '22

Showing Flutter custom error messages

#flutter #dart #opensource #design

3 min read

Sm0ke

Aug 12 '22

Adminator - Simple Django Starter

#adminator #dashboards #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Archer Allstars

Aug 14 '22

I am no longer use Fedora 36, too restricted to be useful

#opensource #beginners #productivity #linux

2 min read

Aug 12 '22

How to build a Live Chat in your Web Application using Robin Part 2

#vue #webdev #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

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