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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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Julia Heitner for RippleX Developers

Apr 28 '22

XRPL Grants Welcomes New Expert Judges for Wave 3

#xrpl #xrplgrants #opensource

6 min read

Brandon Roberts for Appwrite

Apr 27 '22

Building Your Own Google Docs Clone with Flutter

#appwrite #opensource #flutter

2 min read

Prudence97

Apr 28 '22

Creating a Repository on Git Hub

#github #codenewbie #opensource #prudyopensourceseries

2 min read

Daniel Bass for Permit.io

Apr 28 '22

Real-time dynamic authorization - an introduction to OPAL

#authorization #permissions #iam #opensource

6 min read

Romaric P.

Apr 28 '22

A tool to seed your dev database with real data

#opensource #postgres #mysql #mongodb

1 min read

William McGonagle

Apr 27 '22

🚧 What Would You Change About this Website?

#discuss #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 24 '22

What is WebAssembly and why it is a game changer?

#discuss #beginners #opensource #webassembly

3 min read

Sophia Iroegbu for Medusa

Apr 26 '22

8 Open Source Projects for Your Ecommerce Stack

#opensource #programming #webdev #tooling

7 min read

Victoria Ricarte Bispo Beserra

Apr 26 '22

Moo - Orientação de objeto minimalista

#perl #opensource #braziliandevs #oop

5 min read

Shubhendra Singh Chauhan for ToolJet

Apr 26 '22

Building Recruitment Management App using Appwrite and ToolJet (Part 1)

#showdev #tutorial #beginners #opensource

10 min read

Heavy Duty Builders

Apr 26 '22

Bulldozer Report (04/26/2022)

#web3 #solana #opensource #blockchain

5 min read

Apr 26 '22

Release 2.2.0 of an ack Bash Completion

#release #opensource #ack #bash

2 min read

Sidharth Mohanty

Apr 25 '22

My journey with open source and lessons learned

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

9 min read

Shubhendra Singh Chauhan for ToolJet

Apr 26 '22

Building Recruitment Management App using Appwrite and ToolJet (Part 2)

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #beginners

8 min read

Apr 26 '22

Fall in Love with TERMUX

#beginners #programming #opensource #android

2 min read

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