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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

Nov 20 '21

Django Cookie-Cutter - Material Dashboard

#django #cookiecutter #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Nov 20 '21

Dynamic Twitter header images with Dynacover GitHub Action!

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #php

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 16 '21

Building a responsive navbar component in Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #opensource #webdev #tutorial

8 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Nov 17 '21

GitHub Actions: You Can Build Reusable Workflows!

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #devops

3 min read

Nov 20 '21

Release of Perl distribution of Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 1.9

#opensource #release #perl

1 min read

Roberto B.

Nov 20 '21

Generate automatically Workflow files

#actionshackathon21 #codequality #php #opensource

1 min read

Lorena for n8n

Nov 20 '21

6 features of tasks that can be automated 📑

#automation #nocode #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Nov 19 '21

⚡💾⚡ Storing your Terraform statefile as a Github workflow artifact with the terraform_state_artifact action !

#actionshackathon21 #opensource #githubactions #terraform

2 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Nov 18 '21

How to Convince Your Boss to Open Source a Project

#opensource #startup #career #leadership

4 min read

Naim Malek

Nov 19 '21

ReactJs Qrcode generator library

#react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 18 '21

Flask API Boilerplate - Simple Starter in Action

#webdev #react #flask #opensource

4 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Nov 2 '21

How to Create the Perfect README for Your Open Source Project

#opensource #github #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Francesco Menghi

Nov 19 '21

Fetching the Github API

#github #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Sebastian Rindom for Medusa

Nov 19 '21

Why we migrated to TypeScript after all

#javascript #typescript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 18 '21

Windster - Tailwind CSS admin dashboard interface [MIT License]

#showdev #tailwindcss #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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