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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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Sm0ke

Mar 31 '22

Django Pixel - Free Bootstrap 5 Starter

#bootstrap5 #django #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mar 31 '22

A WordPress alternative called SilverStripe

#php #webdev #wordpress #opensource

3 min read

Offline Programmer

Mar 31 '22

Learn about Amplify API GraphQL Model Helper For Flutter

#flutter #aws #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Mar 31 '22

What even is an Open Source Program Office - with Spotify, Aiven & Wipro

#ospo #opensource #security

7 min read

Mar 31 '22

Kusk Gateway beta1 - OpenAPI-first for Kubernetes

#kuberne #openapi #opensource #devops

1 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Mar 23 '22

Interested in learning more about Commercial Open Source? There’s a Forem for that.

#opensource #meta #forem #startup

2 min read

Medea

Mar 30 '22

Myfe - 30/03/22

#python #gamedev #opensource #programming

2 min read

Rob

Mar 30 '22

Using SiriDB for IoT applications

#iot #timeseries #database #opensource

5 min read

Danglewood

Mar 30 '22

How To See The Inverted Treasury Yield Curve With OpenBB Terminal

#showdev #opensource #startup #python

7 min read

Sanjay Singh Rajpoot

Mar 30 '22

Why you should contribute to Open Source Projects?

#opensource #webdev #productivity #career

2 min read

Mar 30 '22

How I created my first Open Source project

#showdev #javascript #opensource #codenewbie

3 min read

Kasper Fabricius Kristensen for Medusa

Mar 29 '22

Create An Open Source Ecommerce Store with Gatsby and Medusa

#javascript #opensource #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

Matt Lewis for AWS Heroes

Mar 29 '22

Centralising audit, compliance and incident detection

#aws #security #opensource #tutorial

13 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 29 '22

How to build rating star components with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #opensource #webdev #tutorial

7 min read

Ivan for Parabeac

Mar 29 '22

How I added animation to my generated Flutter website using Parabeac

#webdev #productivity #opensource #flutter

4 min read

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