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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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Cristian Zapata

May 22 '24

Portable configurations with dotfiles and GNU Stow 🐧

#linux #git #systems #opensource

4 min read

Nils Hyoma

Jun 25 '24

Dependency Discovery Deck: A Game-Changer for Scaled Agile Teams

#agile #depedency #gamification #opensource

3 min read

Igor Leal

Jun 25 '24

Guia para Iniciantes: Contribuindo em Projetos Open Source Passo a Passo

#ruby #opensource #github #contributorswanted

3 min read

May 23 '24

Open source: The world of selfless collaboration

#opensource #programming #collaboration

2 min read

Jun 23 '24

I am an Avid Vim User, Finally Migrated to Neovim! How does it work, what do I gain from it?

#productivity #devops #opensource #linux

9 min read

devpebe

May 22 '24

I created free React Material UI dashboard theme

#webdev #react #opensource #frontend

2 min read

Jun 25 '24

Top Free APIs For Developers in 2024

#javascript #api #opensource #beginners

2 min read

宏天软件BPM&低代码平台

Jun 25 '24

门户的日常应用的研究报告

#webdev #python #devops #opensource

1 min read

May 23 '24

iTerm2 and the Gap Between Developers and Users

#iterm2 #opensource #community #netbox

3 min read

宏天软件BPM&低代码平台

Jun 25 '24

宏天软件门户平台研究报告

#react #ai #opensource #java

1 min read

Antonio

Jun 24 '24

Open Source Projects from DEV Community Post | PT.1

#discuss #opensource #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Jun 25 '24

Open Sourcing my Design System

#opensource #design #ux #frontend

3 min read

lemma

Jun 25 '24

Pure front-end magic: creating a real-time hair and lip color converter

#javascript #react #opensource #frontend

4 min read

Jun 24 '24

From Contributor to Maintainer: Lessons from Open Source Software

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

4 min read

Jun 24 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How does shadcn-ui CLI work? — Part 1.0

#javascript #nextjs #opensource #shadcnui

3 min read

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