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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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Sep 18 '24

8 Open Source Projects Worth Bookmarking

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

4 min read

Sep 21 '24

Comparing Radix Angular and Angular CDK: A Practical Perspective

#angular #opensource #radixui #react

3 min read

Sep 18 '24

Top Open Source Companies to Watch in 2024

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev #programming

5 min read

Apurva Khandelwal

Sep 19 '24

How I Sync my Obsidian Notes For Free !

#productivity #notion #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Sep 18 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: Preparation Guide and Tips

#beginners #hacktoberfest #opensource #community

9 min read

Uday Rana

Sep 21 '24

Collaborative Coding

#osd600 #github #opensource #javascript

6 min read

John McBride for OpenSauced

Sep 16 '24

Introducing the Pizza CLI

#opensource #codeowners #cli

5 min read

Aditya Pratap Bhuyan

Sep 21 '24

The Ultimate Guide to Digitally Signing Code for Open Source Software on GitHub and Bitbucket

#digitalsign #github #bitbucket #opensource

6 min read

Sep 20 '24

Effective PRs, Code Reviews, and Issue Fixes

#typescript #opensource #github #webdev

5 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Sep 19 '24

Why Companies Should Self-Host Hoppscotch for Their API Testing

#api #testing #opensource #github

3 min read

Sep 20 '24

Infusion v0.1.0

#cli #python #opensource

2 min read

Ramzi Issiakhem

Sep 20 '24

Build with Me Larachat #2: The mistake most developers do when building a product

#webdev #laravel #opensource #devjournal

2 min read

Sep 18 '24

😎Be a 10x Dev With These Amazing Tools v2🧑‍💻

#webdev #productivity #programming #opensource

5 min read

Sep 20 '24

Add a test case when your open-source project’s issue is fixed.

#javascript #typescript #opensource #zustand

6 min read

Craigory Coppola

Sep 16 '24

Unlisted GitHub Repositories

#git #github #programming #opensource

3 min read

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