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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

Sep 9 '24

Introducing Perseid: The Product-oriented JS framework

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

3 min read

Priyanshu Verma

Sep 8 '24

A Simple Guide to Building a Fluvio Connector in Rust

#rust #fluvio #buildinpublic #opensource

10 min read

Olabode Lawal-Shittabey

Sep 9 '24

Building jargons.dev [#5]: The Fork Script

#javascript #opensource #buildinpublic #productivity

3 min read

Cybread

Aug 29 '24

Web PDF Viewer Techniques (React.js)

#pdf #webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

Samuel Kinuthia

Sep 9 '24

Mastering Website Performance: Fixing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) & Boosting Speed

#javascript #opensource #performance #productivity

6 min read

Sep 7 '24

Secure your app in just a few lines of code using Arcjet! ✈️

#opensource #security #javascript #web

6 min read

Lulu

Sep 9 '24

The Must-Have Free WAF for Web Application Security: SafeLine

#opensource #cybersecurity #devops #webdev

1 min read

The Apostrophe Team for Apostrophe

Aug 29 '24

Creation of the ApostropheCMS Documentation Chatbot

#ai #opensource #softwaredevelopment #openai

12 min read

Sep 9 '24

Is it Preptember yet?

#opensource #hacktoberfest #php #community

3 min read

TheDev

Sep 20 '24

Cursor AI vs. Void AI Code Editor: The Ultimate Showdown

#ai #beginners #programming #opensource

1 min read

Robort

Aug 29 '24

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Explained: How It Enhances Collaboration and Testing

#bdd #testing #opensource #programming

3 min read

Mohammed Muqtadir Ahad

Sep 8 '24

Coolify: Your All-in-One Open-Source PaaS Solution

#paas #opensource #webdev #linux

3 min read

Jimmy Guerrero for Voxel51

Aug 29 '24

Voxel51 is Hiring Computer Vision Evangelists!

#devrel #opensource #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

Anirudh Kalyanaraman

Aug 5 '24

Contributing to Cyclops-UI

#cyclopsui #opensource #golanguage #typescript

2 min read

Sep 8 '24

An introduction to AWS Lambda for beginners

#devops #aws #opensource #serverless

2 min read

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