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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 18 '24

The Open Source Slack Alternative

#opensource #productivity

3 min read

Rudransh Bhardwaj

Feb 18 '24

NEED CONTRIBUTORS 🙏

#webdev #opensource #frontend #css

1 min read

Feb 18 '24

TypeScript Swagger Editor - alternative of MSW and Swagger-UI

#swagger #typescript #opensource #openapi

4 min read

Jitendra Choudhary

Feb 14 '24

Explaining Open Source to My Doctor

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie #programming

4 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Feb 18 '24

Sheriffing in Open Source

#opensource #webdev #programming #react

6 min read

Netsai

Feb 18 '24

Title: Boost Your Database Interactions with Prisma! ✨🔍

#nextjs #programming #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Guilherme Martin

Feb 18 '24

Integrating with Google Gemini: Using a Built .NET SDK

#ai #programming #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Someshwaran Mohankumar

Feb 18 '24

Secure Your Site Without Breaking the Bank: A CertBot & Apache Guide for Beginners

#webdev #tutorial #beginners #opensource

1 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 17 '24

What Design Tool Should I Use?

#opensource #productivity #collaboration

3 min read

Utpal Nadiger for Digger

Feb 15 '24

Streamlining Infrastructure as Code: A Guide to Terraform Automation, Collaboration, and Governance in Large Organizations

#opensource #go #devops #cloud

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Feb 16 '24

Open-source "copy to clipboard" components built with Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #flowbite #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Christine Belzie

Mar 3 '24

Accessible Colors: How I Brought Rainbows to Everyone

#opensource #devjournal #a11y

4 min read

Justin Schroeder

Feb 14 '24

Introducing Tempo • A new date library for JavaScript (and TypeScript).

#javascript #webdev #opensource #node

4 min read

Feb 16 '24

OpenAI's Sora: Bringing Imagination to Life with Text-to-Video AI

#openai #opensource #chatgpt #sora

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 21 '24

What's a Headless CMS?

#opensource #headless

6 min read

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