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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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Aug 13 '24

A Comprehensive Guide to React-Quill: The Rich Text Editor for Your React Applications

#react #javascript #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Lulu

Aug 13 '24

How to Fortify and Safely Test Your Website Against Hackers

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #waf

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 5 '24

The Unexpected Power of 100 Days in Open Source

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie

2 min read

skywarth

Aug 12 '24

How I built my first bot using Typescript

#showdev #typescript #github #opensource

9 min read

Francisco Maria Calisto

Jul 9 '24

Celebrating 100 Days of Continuous GitHub Contributions

#github #opensource #productivity #developer

3 min read

Jul 9 '24

🚀 Advanced Terminal Calculator: Your Ultimate Dev Tool! 🌟

#python #github #programming #opensource

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Aug 12 '24

AIM Weekly for 12 August 2024

#opensource #vectordatabase #milvus #genai

7 min read

Andrzej Mazur for js13kGames

Aug 12 '24

Kick-off Meetup with GitHub on Twitch

#js13k #github #opensource #meetup

2 min read

Olabode Lawal-Shittabey

Aug 12 '24

Building jargons.dev [#0]: The Initial Commit

#opensource #productivity #javascript #buildinpublic

4 min read

Aug 12 '24

GitHub Hehe : Analyzing GitHub accounts with a touch of sarcasm ! Discover witty and humorous feedback on your GitHub profile .

#flutter #opensource #gemini #ai

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 12 '24

How to Enable Dynamic Protection in SafeLine WAF for Enhanced Security

#opensource #cybersecurity #tutorial #waf

2 min read

Aug 11 '24

My Outreachy Experience!❤️

#outreachy #ushahidi #opensource #a11y

5 min read

Hadil Ben Abdallah

Aug 11 '24

What is Git ?

#git #opensource #programming #github

3 min read

Tom Malkin

Aug 12 '24

AutoDocument - Open-Source Mail Merge Alternative

#python #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Jul 8 '24

🚀 Boost Your Laravel Performance with Real-Time Laravel N+1 Query Detection! 🛠️

#laravel #database #opensource #github

2 min read

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