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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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GitNation

Mar 21 '25

JSNation US - 2nd Edition🌆

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

1 min read

KlarkC

Feb 19 '25

Replacing Low Code with PureScript and Temporal (Dev Journal)

#programming #purescript #opensource #devjournal

5 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Mar 14 '25

How To Fetch (Get) HTML From Server 🛤️

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

5 min read

Mar 21 '25

warnOnce package in Refine source code.

#opensource #javascript #node #warnonce

3 min read

silambarasan rajendran

Mar 21 '25

Day-02: Open Source Community links

#opensource #linux #meeting #programming

1 min read

Feb 15 '25

Navigating the Economic Viability of Open Source Projects

#blockchain #opensource #economicviability #fundingstrategies

2 min read

Feb 15 '25

Fueling Innovation and Inclusivity: The Role of Open Source Developer Grants and Stipends

#monetizeopensource #opensource #developergrants #inclusion

3 min read

Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Mar 20 '25

Integrating a Page Builder with Contentful

#opensource #cms #react #webdev

13 min read

Apr 1 '25

Self-hosting n8n: the easy way

#cloud #devops #opensource #ai

2 min read

Bob Tordella for AWS Community Builders

Mar 20 '25

Threat Detection for AWS CloudTrail Logs

#aws #opensource #tailpipe #powerpipe

4 min read

Feb 14 '25

Financial Sustainability in Open Source Projects: A Guide to Thriving

#opensourcecapitalism #opensource #financialsustainability #communityengagement

2 min read

Deotyma

Mar 20 '25

Loglan'82: A Forgotten Programming Language Ahead of Its Time

#programming #opensource #coding

6 min read

John Kat for Unoforge

Mar 18 '25

Building Flexilla : Headless Interactive Component Library

#webdev #opensource #devchallenge #learning

5 min read

Jérome Freyre for Vaudoise Assurances

Mar 20 '25

The (really) long journey to an API Community of Practice in a 130 years old insurance company

#api #opensource #openapi #community

4 min read

Mar 20 '25

deferExecution() in Refine source code.

#opensource #react #javascript

4 min read

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