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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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Paul Yu for Microsoft Azure

Mar 21 '24

Adding a GitHub Codespace button to your README

#github #codespaces #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Vaunt

Mar 21 '24

Celebrating Open-Source Excellence: Key partner leverages Vaunt for a doc improvement hackathon

#opensource #github #community #startup

2 min read

Antonello Zanini for Apostrophe

Mar 21 '24

How to Integrate Astro With ApostropheCMS pt. 1

#javascript #tutorial #devops #opensource

14 min read

Mar 21 '24

Top Libraries You Should Know if You Build with Angular: A Comedic Guide to Web Dev Enlightenment

#webdev #javascript #angular #opensource

3 min read

Sm0ke

Apr 1 '24

Simple Tailwind & Stripe eCommerce

#ecommerce #stripe #django #opensource

3 min read

kondetiramanakumar

Mar 21 '24

AtlasMap User Guide

#programming #tutorial #opensource #learning

1 min read

FOBABS

Mar 21 '24

The beginning of dsa-scripts

#opensource #algorithms #javascript #python

2 min read

Mar 21 '24

Invincible null: digging into nopCommerce source code

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #programming

9 min read

Schalk Neethling

Mar 18 '24

6 Tools To Help Keep Your Dependencies And Code More Secure

#webdev #security #opensource #node

8 min read

Harshal Ranjhani for CodeParrot

Mar 20 '24

Shadcn: Customizable and Open Source UI

#webdev #ui #shadcn #opensource

3 min read

Mar 20 '24

Lessons from open-source: Algorithm behind `“next buuild” does not exist. Did you mean “next build”?`

#javascript #node #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

NarsGNA for Hyperswitch

Mar 19 '24

Why we're changing our hiring process 🚀🎸

#opensource #hiring #rust #react

3 min read

Feb 19 '24

The State Of Open Conference 2024

#conference #opensource #community #futureofopentech

2 min read

Vedant Khairnar

Mar 20 '24

How to hire Developers for your Open Source Project?

#hiring #hyperswitch #opensource #programming

4 min read

Mar 30 '24

Stop using swagger-ui only, go with TypeScript SDK in browser

#openapi #swagger #opensource #typescript

5 min read

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