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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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Nov 3 '24

Using WAVE as new terminal.

#terminal #opensource #ai

2 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Nov 3 '24

Reflecting on Hacktoberfest 2024

#opensource #git #github #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Elias

Dec 7 '24

Generate SSH Keys Effortlessly with generate-ssh-key

#javascript #git #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Henrique Sagara

Nov 7 '24

Implementing Unit Testing in ReadmeGenie

#opensource #testing #python #unittest

4 min read

Salim Ọlánrewájú Oyinlọlá for GitHub Campus Experts

Dec 7 '24

Beyond the Classroom: Inspiring Careers in Open Source

#opensource #storytelling #githubeducation #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Dec 4 '24

Supabase Cron

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Dec 6 '24

Open source Hugo Theme for building SaaS websites: Saasify

#hugo #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dec 6 '24

Building Your Next Project with Open Source Boilerplates

#webdev #opensource #boilerplates

3 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Dec 3 '24

Cyclops Launch Week #1 Recap

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

4 min read

Ashwin Gopalsamy

Dec 6 '24

A Tiny, Dependency-Free UUID Checker for Go!

#go #uuid #opensource

2 min read

Olabode Lawal-Shittabey

Dec 6 '24

Building jargons.dev [#7]: The Word Editor Script

#javascript #buildinpublic #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Dec 6 '24

Master Real-Time Communication with Socket.IO + Sparrow

#showdev #ai #github #opensource

2 min read

Nov 25 '24

Whazzup mates? What's App by CLI!

#opensource #cli #javascript #tooling

2 min read

Dec 6 '24

Creating a Dockerfile

#docker #opensource #devops #cloud

4 min read

TheoForger

Nov 2 '24

Hacktoberfest! - Racap

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

5 min read

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