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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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Apr 18 '24

Contributing to Open Source Project ChatCraft

#opensource #typescript #react #webdev

3 min read

Gerard Clos for Latitude

Apr 18 '24

After 10 years of building B2B SaaS, going open-source has been a breath of fresh air

#opensource #career #webdev #programming

1 min read

Schalk Neethling

Apr 13 '24

Here are the 10 projects I am contributing to over the next 6 months. Share yours

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Mar 31 '24

Why you should have a home server

#discuss #productivity #opensource #learning

4 min read

Apr 16 '24

Why use Open Source Feature Flags?

#opensource #devops #development #programming

4 min read

Aliki92

Mar 28 '24

systemd journal: Leveraging Logs for Deeper System Insights

#monitoring #devops #opensource #linux

2 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

Apr 17 '24

Bypass CORS errors while testing your APIs using Hoppscotch 🔧

#opensource #api #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Jane

Mar 15 '24

Let's go opensource

#opensource #community #transparency

2 min read

Apr 8 '24

We got 500 GitHub stars! 🤯 What's next?

#opensource #react #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Grzegorz Piechnik

Apr 16 '24

Dont waste money on monitoring YOUR startup

#webdev #beginners #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Katie Liu

Apr 6 '24

ChatCraft week 12: PR merged and follow ups!

#opensource #chatcraft #typescript #chatgpt

2 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Apr 10 '24

Growth Hacking Killed GitHub Stars

#opensource #github

5 min read

Apr 16 '24

PlumeJS - No fuss web-components framework

#javascript #html #programming #opensource

3 min read

May 2 '24

Want to learn programming? Contribute to open source.

#beginners #opensource #learning #github

1 min read

Murillo Mendonça

Apr 4 '24

Hash Map As a Service

#redis #cpp #programming #opensource

11 min read

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