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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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Amir M. Mohamadi

Jan 7 '22

Intro to FlatifyCSS - Modern flat design framework for the web

#css #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Jan 7 '22

Get your GitHub 2021 year of contributions in 3D

#opensource #yearinreview #tutorial #career

2 min read

Jan 7 '22

What if Professor Snape used GitHub?

#github #tutorial #opensource #git

4 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 6 '22

Flask Useful Extensions - DebugToolbar, Cache, Rate Limiter

#webdev #flask #opensource

3 min read

Nomadev

Jan 5 '22

5 mistakes most dev's do when starting out on Linux!

#linux #opensource #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 4 '22

Windows, WSL, Docker, and Free Starters

#docker #wsl #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jan 6 '22

Why use microservice in Embedded

#luos #opensource #embedded #microservices

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 5 '22

Soft UI Design Django - Free Template

#webdev #django #opensource

2 min read

Jan 6 '22

Switchboard - Simplify file organisation on your machine/s.

#showdev #programming #opensource #go

2 min read

Midhun

Jan 15 '22

Here's how I made a simple Chrome Extension to close all open tabs

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Tim Brook for AREA 17

Jan 5 '22

Auto-visualizing Tailwind Tokens and Documenting Design Systems Props with Blast

#laravel #storybook #tailwindcss #opensource

6 min read

Sebastian Rindom for Medusa

Jan 4 '22

Wrapping up 2021 and what's in store for 2022

#opensource #javascript #webdev #node

2 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 3 '22

Flask Material Kit - Open-source Template

#flask #material #opensource

3 min read

Sachin Chaurasiya

Jan 2 '22

5 Awesome Libraries To Use In Your Next ReactJs Project

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Jan 3 '22

Open Source Public Fund experiment

#opensource #agilepublicfunds

4 min read

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