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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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Mazahir

Feb 20 '22

I made a Next Js Project, Which helps you remember friends birthdays. 😁

#showdev #nextjs #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 21 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #101

#opensource #aws

12 min read

Sindhu

Feb 22 '22

Automatic ambient light controller

#showdev #raspberrypi #python #opensource

5 min read

GAUTAM JHA

Feb 21 '22

WordPress is Underrated.

#wordpress #opensource #productivity #php

2 min read

Artem Zakharchenko

Feb 21 '22

Mock Service Worker adopts a brand-new request interception algorithm for Node.js.

#javascript #testing #api #opensource

8 min read

SAGAR SATAPATHY

Feb 21 '22

Front-End Web Development with React #CompleteRoadMap

#react #opensource #github #beginners

3 min read

Johan Eliasson for Nhost

Feb 21 '22

How to Add Authentication to Hasura

#graphql #typescript #opensource #database

4 min read

Syed Vikas Bukhari

Feb 21 '22

Open Speech Corpus - Self Hosted and Open Source Tool to Collect and Validate Voice Samples.

#javascript #firebase #react #opensource

1 min read

Feb 21 '22

Introducing Hit Counter for Your GitHub or Any Kind of Websites You Want

#github #beginners #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Feb 20 '22

Improving your React Native application performance with react-navigation-focus-render

#showdev #reactnative #react #opensource

3 min read

dbelokon

Feb 20 '22

Figuring out the Best Abstraction

#opensource #reactnative #database #javascript

4 min read

Feb 20 '22

Cherrybomb v0.4.3 - Added support for OAS-3.1

#opensource #openapi #rust #api

1 min read

Subomi Oluwalana for Convoy

Feb 18 '22

Introducing Convoy

#showdev #webhooks #go #opensource

3 min read

Feb 16 '22

5 Free Perfect Headless CMS for JS Developers

#cms #javascript #opensource #node

4 min read

Feb 18 '22

✨Libshare - Curate & Share Your favorite JavaScript Libraries!

#angular #harperdb #javascript #opensource

11 min read

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