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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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Antonio

Sep 14 '24

Analytics dashboard that simplifies developers lives

#beginners #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Opire

Sep 3 '24

How to Grow Your Open Source Project: 11 Tips and Examples 🎯🎁⚡

#opensource #webdev #programming #javascript

16 min read

Sohil Shah

Aug 25 '24

Data Pipeline Techniques in Action

#opensource #datascience #softwaredevelopment #dataengineering

1 min read

Ali Alp

Sep 14 '24

Free Sudoku Puzzle Generator

#python #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Taipy

Sep 10 '24

21 Developer Tools to Improve Your Daily Life as Developer ⚡🎁

#opensource #programming #webdev #productivity

26 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 19 '24

The Problem of Knowledge Debt in Tech

#opensource

5 min read

observIQ

Aug 15 '24

Navigating Open Source Software: All Your Questions Answered

#devops #opensource #kubernetes #sql

7 min read

Sotiris Kourouklis

Sep 14 '24

AI-powered Github leaderboard.

#opensource #webdev #ai

1 min read

Evangelos Meklis

Sep 14 '24

My first open-source project built with Python to inspect databases through CLI fast

#python #database #opensource #github

1 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Sep 11 '24

Rocket - The Rust Web Framework - Hello World

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

2 min read

Syakir

Sep 12 '24

17 Best Free React Admin Template 2024 to Speed up Your Web App Development 🚀

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

5 min read

Abdullah Al Mamun Fahim

Sep 14 '24

Dealing with issues

#javascript #opensource #cli #github

4 min read

Sep 14 '24

Code Review

#programming #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Peter Wan

Sep 14 '24

Dev log: gimme_readme 0.1 release

#osd600 #opensource #ai #javascript

6 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Sep 14 '24

My First Code Review

#opensource

4 min read

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