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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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Dec 30 '24

300+ FREE APIs Every Developer Needs to Know

#api #programming #tutorial #opensource

21 min read

Nov 26 '24

Introduce CLI ID generator

#go #cli #opensource

1 min read

Abdullah Al Mamun Fahim

Nov 26 '24

Release 0.4 Planning

#opensource #github

1 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Nov 25 '24

DocWire new release 2024.11.23

#news #cpp #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Nov 25 '24

Introducing the Goliat Theme: A project for the Community!

#ghost #themes #development #opensource

2 min read

TheoForger

Nov 25 '24

Going with Mattermost!

#opensource #beginners #go #mattermost

3 min read

TheoForger

Nov 25 '24

Hurl, I've Come to Bargain

#opensource #beginners #rust

5 min read

Lymah

Dec 29 '24

Week 5 Recap of #100DaysOfCode

#100daysofcode #buildinpublic #softwaredevelopment #opensource

3 min read

Henrique Sagara

Nov 25 '24

Continue contributing to Open-Source projects

#opensource

2 min read

Andy Verstraeten

Nov 25 '24

Asking for feedback on open source CLI tool that exports Markdown to PDF using html and css templates(MDExport)

#cli #markdown #python #opensource

1 min read

angDecoder

Dec 29 '24

CHAPTER 1 : Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications

#systemdesign #programming #development #opensource

4 min read

Indie Maker Fox

Dec 29 '24

The Open Source Directory Boilerplate

#opensource #nextjs #sanity #boilerplate

3 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Dec 19 '24

DevOps vs Platform Engineering

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Dec 28 '24

Google Summer of Code: Getting Selected, My Time, My Experience, My Journey.

#webdev #googlesummerofcode #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Dec 29 '24

Pulumi Wasm/Rust devlog #1

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

2 min read

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