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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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Asmit Malakannawar

Jun 25 '22

Google Summer of Code with GNOME Foundation.

#gsoc #gnome #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jun 24 '22

How to build a responsive header component with Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #tutorial #opensource #flowbite

10 min read

Jun 24 '22

Open-Source Software, Licensing and Enterprise Procurement

#opensource #enterprise #agile

7 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jun 24 '22

How to use Luos with Python?

#luos #python #opensource #embedded

1 min read

Shamanth Shetty for Kern AI

Jun 24 '22

Integrate embeddings easily

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #datascience

1 min read

Mursal Furqan Kumbhar

Jun 24 '22

Access Github Copilot for free

#github #githubcopilot #codenewbie #opensource

1 min read

Application Library Engineering Group

Jun 24 '22

Counter App in Open Harmony

#opensource #javascript #libraries

4 min read

EMQ Technologies for EMQ Technologies

Jun 24 '22

How to Use MQTT in the React Native Project

#mqtt #reactnative #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Jun 24 '22

A set of modern Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes

#kubernetes #monitoring #devops #opensource

1 min read

Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen for The Transient Thoughts of a Restless Mind

Jun 23 '22

Recovering intentionally destroyed open-source repositories

#opensource #git #github

1 min read

adriens for opt-nc

Jun 23 '22

🗠 Waiting time in OPT-NC agencies... on Rapidapi.com

#tutorial #api #docker #opensource

1 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jun 23 '22

With Luos, each node can access the position of another node

#embedded #luos #opensource #devtool

1 min read

Shamanth Shetty for Kern AI

Jun 23 '22

AutoML-docker has been launched

#programming #tutorial #opensource #github

1 min read

Hasan Aboul Hasan

Jun 22 '22

How To Build Your Own Keyword Tool With Google Ads API & C#

#csharp #opensource #dotnet #googleapi

5 min read

adriens for opt-nc

Jun 21 '22

🎀 Spring Boot 2.7.0 Released

#news #java #springboot #opensource

2 min read

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