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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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Jasmine

Sep 5 '24

Exploring the Intersection of Science and Art in Computer Science

#computerscience #opensource #music #beginners

2 min read

Luis Fabrício De Llamas

Oct 5 '24

Instrumentação com OpenTelemetry: Zero-Code, Code-Based ou Bibliotecas Instrumentadas?

#beginners #observability #opentelemetry #opensource

3 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Oct 1 '24

21 React Projects Too Awesome to Ignore

#react #javascript #opensource #programming

24 min read

Oct 3 '24

Get ready Bounty Huntersss! Algora 🔥 V/S Opire ❄️

#opensource #bounty #programming #productivity

4 min read

IAM VAAR

Sep 23 '24

Built a Slack Employee recognition bot with Nextjs (free code link included)

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #react

2 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Oct 5 '24

Continuous Contribution

#opensource #rust

2 min read

Oct 4 '24

A Practical Approach to TOML Files and Remote Branch Management

#opensource #webdev #python #github

3 min read

Peter Wan

Oct 4 '24

Devlog: Hacktoberfest 2024 (1/4)

#hacktoberfest #git #github #opensource

3 min read

Oct 4 '24

Hacktoberfest 🎃 oss.gg: Code, Conquer, and Win Big! 💻🎮📱

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev

3 min read

Lorenzo Bradanini for CortexFlow

Oct 4 '24

Introducing CortexFlow: an Open-Source IoT Simulation and Big Data Analytics Framework

#opensource #java #react #github

3 min read

Oct 4 '24

Exploring Development Paradigms: Sequential, Asynchronous, and Multithreading Link Checkers in Rust

#discuss #rust #programming #opensource

4 min read

Oct 4 '24

🚀 How I Made Your Life Easier with TOML Configs in an Open Source Project

#opensource #python

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 29 '24

Open-source WYSIWYG text editor component built with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #opensource #webdev #flowbite

6 min read

MUHAMMAD USMAN AWAN

Oct 4 '24

15 React Website Examples You’ll Want to Copy in 2025

#webdev #react #opensource #javascript

8 min read

Oct 4 '24

How I Went from Code Chaos to Chill Breeze

#showdev #api #opensource #github

2 min read

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