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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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Amnish Singh Arora

Apr 14 '24

ChatCraft 2.0 is almost Here!

#opensource #webdev #javascript #react

4 min read

Ankur Tyagi for AgentCloud

Apr 11 '24

Agent Cloud VS OpenAI

#webdev #opensource #openai #productivity

8 min read

Alex for DocuSignLog

Apr 17 '24

Comparing DocuSign, PandaDoc, and OpenSign: A Detailed Guide

#javascript #tutorial #react #opensource

3 min read

Katie Liu

Apr 13 '24

ChatCraft week 13: Fixing bugs

#chatcraft #typescript #opensource #chatgpt

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 1 '24

Maintainer Month: Enhancing Support for Open Source Maintainers

#opensource #maintainermonth

5 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Apr 13 '24

ChatCraft Adventures #13, UI Changes

#beginners #opensource

4 min read

Apr 12 '24

Tips from open-source: An Object with Map and Set.

#javascript #nextjs #react #opensource

2 min read

Clelia (Astra) Bertelli

Apr 12 '24

AI enthusiasm #3 - AlphaFold2, a game-changer🧬

#opensource #learning #bigdata #ai

2 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Winglang

Mar 25 '24

Build a Full-Stack app using these React libraries and cloud backend.

#react #opensource #programming #webdev

33 min read

Mar 13 '24

OpenSearchCon Europe 2024 - call for presentations (CfP)

#opensource #opensearch #developers #cfp

1 min read

Apr 11 '24

Tips from open-source: Use “Set” to remove duplicates from an array.

#javascript #nextjs #opensource #node

3 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 15 '24

Supabase Bootstrap: the fastest way to launch a new project

#webdev #programming #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Mar 20 '24

17 Libraries You Should Know if You Build with React

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

23 min read

env zero Team for env zero

Apr 11 '24

OpenTofu: The Open Source Terraform Alternative

#terraform #opensource #infrastructureascode #devops

9 min read

Travis

Apr 10 '24

Kick Start Your Next Project With Holo Theme

#showdev #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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