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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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Open Source Flutter Project: Map Customization, State Management Live Location Tracking & Sharing.

#opensource #flutter #dart #github

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#node #whatsapp #beginners #opensource

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Carrie

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#cybersecurity #opensource

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#programming #opensource #android #frontend

1 min read

Carrie

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#cybersecurity #opensource

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Norbert Dejlich

Oct 18 '24

2024 Hacktoberfest & LiteDevelopers

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

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kong

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Five Free Security Tools That Will Surprise You

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

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Vineel Reddy Pindi

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Hacktoberfest with Interledger: Pay the Web Forward

#hacktoberfest #opensource #fintech #web3

4 min read

Carrie

Oct 22 '24

Self-Hosting: What, Why and How

#webdev #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Oct 21 '24

Boring Finance: Fancy Record Keeping - Call for all the Open-Source Contributors

#webdev #javascript #opensource #bunjs

3 min read

Oct 21 '24

How to Become an Open-Source Contributor: A Developer's Guide to Contributing in 2025.

#webdev #opensource #devops #tutorial

5 min read

Ramy

Oct 19 '24

My PRs in Hacktoberfest 2024

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 22 '24

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE with BULK COLLECT

#opensource #oracle #fullstack #backend

3 min read

Abdullah Al Mamun Fahim

Sep 17 '24

Explainer.js Release v0.1.0!

#javascript #ai #cli #opensource

2 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

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Genereadme v0.1 release

#opensource #openai #javascript #cli

2 min read

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