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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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Uday Rana

Dec 10 '24

Doing More Open Source Stuff: Making Up For Lost Time

#opensource #javascript #android #linux

4 min read

TheoForger

Dec 10 '24

December Is Going Well!

#opensource #beginners #rust

4 min read

Dec 10 '24

Scalable Image Comparison: An Open-Source Java Library

#java #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Dec 9 '24

A Final Challenge: Release

#opensource #github #programming #typescript

4 min read

Devam Chaudhari

Jan 12 '25

Streamline Your GitHub Issues: Custom Issue Templates Made Easy

#webdev #github #productivity #opensource

3 min read

sred

Jan 11 '25

Help Shape a Platform for Student Collaboration and Open-Source Contribution! 🌟

#opensource #collaboration

1 min read

Hasan

Jan 11 '25

TDD: No, Not Test-Driven Development; Let’s Talk Technical Design Documents

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Jan 11 '25

Pick Files from a List for Git Add and Stash Directly in Your Terminal

#git #shell #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Jan 7 '25

How to Build a Real-Time Dashboard with Encore.ts and React

#javascript #tutorial #react #opensource

17 min read

Jan 7 '25

When Winston with MySQL or CloudWatch Go Wrong: Node.js

#node #opensource #devchallenge #tutorial

2 min read

Andrea Liliana Griffiths

Jan 10 '25

A Conversation with Docker CTO Justin Cormack and Flox CEO Ron Efrani: The Future of Developer Environments

#docker #nix #github #opensource

2 min read

Jan 10 '25

Make your Day with Daytona

#daytona #react #opensource #quira

3 min read

Jeeva Ramanathan

Jan 10 '25

Effortless Full Stack Development: Set Up Django-React Application with One Command Using Daytona

#daytona #webdev #django #opensource

8 min read

Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jan 10 '25

OpenAI vs. Open-source: Embedding Model Showdown

#webdev #opensource #ai #openai

1 min read

Jan 10 '25

Top 5 Open Source Authenticator Apps

#productivity #opensource #security #authenticator

3 min read

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