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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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Jon for Supabase

Jul 22 '22

Loading SportsDB into Supabase

#supabase #sportsdb #database #opensource

4 min read

Open Source Hub

Jul 11 '22

What is Open Source

#beginners #opensource #community #programming

6 min read

Jul 22 '22

Extending Python Logger for mailing Exceptions

#python #logging #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Sandeep

Jul 22 '22

Count Character Occurrences using Python

#beginners #tutorial #python #opensource

2 min read

Christina Gorton for Scarf

Jul 21 '22

Tanner Linsley: Building Sustainable Open Source Projects

#opensource #community #react

6 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jul 21 '22

Show dev: I built a collection of open-source drawer components for Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jul 21 '22

Nearest Neighbor Embeddings Search with Qdrant and FiftyOne

#machinelearning #computervision #datascience #opensource

9 min read

Thomas.G for NodeSecure

Jul 21 '22

NodeSecure Vuln-era

#javascript #node #security #opensource

3 min read

Memphis.dev team for Memphis.dev

Jul 20 '22

The end of poison messages!

#opensource #product #tooling #github

4 min read

Jul 20 '22

ChakraUI TemplatesKart - UI updates

#showdev #webdev #opensource #react

1 min read

Jul 20 '22

[Open source front-end framework]Some middle school students' framework tntjs

#javascript #html #opensource

3 min read

WhiteBlackGoose

Jul 20 '22

Create static website yourself. No 3rd party services

#fsharp #webdev #github #opensource

4 min read

Jean-Michel Plourde

Jul 19 '22

Testing with Django REST Framework

#python #django #testing #opensource

4 min read

Joseph Kimani for Medusa

Jul 19 '22

How I Integrated Live Chat into Gatsby with Tidio and Medusa

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

Soumendra Kumar Sahoo

Jul 20 '22

Aggregate Code timing in Python

#python #performance #programming #opensource

2 min read

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