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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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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

Mostafa Ahangarha

Mar 27 '22

Open Source is more than open-source.

#opensource

2 min read

Mar 29 '22

How I got into AWS as a Community Builder

#opensource #css #programming #webdev

2 min read

Jan Dvorak

Mar 29 '22

Companies should be financially supporting FOSS where possible

#watercooler #opensource

4 min read

Dev Programming

Mar 29 '22

Remove & Block SNAP from any Linux

#opensource #devops #beginners #ubuntu

4 min read

Mar 29 '22

How to Filter Complex Javascript Arrays

#opensource #javascript #laravel

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 28 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #106

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Alex

Mar 28 '22

Creating a forum with React and Appwrite – Part 2

#javascript #opensource #appwrite #webdev

3 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 27 '22

Black Dashboard Starters - All FREE

#black #dashboard #opensource

5 min read

Mar 28 '22

How to survive the StackOverflowgeddon

#json #cv #career #opensource

2 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 26 '22

Django Full-Stack Starters - Open-Source and Free

#webdev #django #fullstack #opensource

2 min read

Klaudia Jaszczak

Mar 28 '22

Add loading of components definitions inside Strapi plugin - pull request

#strapi #pullrequest #opensource #plugin

1 min read

Mar 28 '22

Build a Secure E-Commerce App with SuperTokens and Hasura GraphQL

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

13 min read

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