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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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Hillary Nyakundi

Oct 13 '21

The Do's and Don'ts of Front-End Documentation

#opensource #documentation #programming #productivity

4 min read

Oct 13 '21

How to create your site for free thanks to Notion , Fruitionsite, Freenom and Cloudflare.

#blog #quick #easy #opensource

2 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Oct 13 '21

Why use a headless commerce platform?

#jamstack #webdev #opensource #ecommcerce

7 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Oct 12 '21

Building Tailwind CSS form and input components

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial #webdev

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Marvin

Oct 13 '21

To OpenSource and Beyond

#opensource #hacktoberfest #django

3 min read

Mohd Talha

Oct 13 '21

Using MindsDB to predict the risk of heart disease

#opensource #machinelearning #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Oct 13 '21

Take better screenshots with Puppeteer

#javascript #tutorial #opensource #node

4 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 11 '21

Node JS React - Soft Dashboard (open-source Full-Stack project)

#react #node #fullstack #opensource

2 min read

Oct 13 '21

Avatar API support in Appwrite

#hacktoberfest #opensource #react #appwrite

2 min read

Oct 12 '21

Open Sourcing My Tools For Generating Tutorials From Source Code

#opensource #javascript #automation #writing

7 min read

Oct 12 '21

Compose Generator - Deploy your App in Seconds

#docker #go #opensource #devops

4 min read

Oct 12 '21

Hacktoberfest ASCII Art

#hacktoberfest #python #opensource #github

1 min read

Oct 12 '21

Kubernetes PODs

#kubernetes #docker #devops #opensource

4 min read

AnkithaTech11 for Aviyel Inc

Oct 12 '21

Hacktoberfest’21: Aviyel is Celebrating Open Source with Coffee & Code!

#chatwoot #developers #opensource #chatbots

1 min read

Oct 12 '21

How to install zsh(Oh My Zsh) and zsh-autosuggestions on ubuntu 18.04

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #devops

3 min read

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