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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 1 '24

Game Development and Multimedia: Godot Engine, A Game-Changer in Game Development

#opensource #godot #gamedev #gaming

5 min read

Luca Argentieri

Jan 24 '24

A new customizable vue video player

#vue #video #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jan 24 '24

Open source Pong game using React 🏓🚀

#typescript #opensource #webdev #react

2 min read

Jan 24 '24

Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained — Part 1.4

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #javascript

2 min read

Jan 24 '24

Looking for your first easy open-source contribution? 🤔 Contribute to Frontend History! 📕

#opensource #vue #javascript

1 min read

Jan 24 '24

Supercharge your app with user extensions using Deno JavaScript runtime

#opensource #rust #deno #buildinpublic

9 min read

Leonardo Rafael Wehrmeister

Jan 23 '24

Top Material Design 3 web frameworks of 2024

#webdev #css #html #opensource

2 min read

delv.

Jan 24 '24

🗃️ Building a Pocket Database with Telegra.ph — create your non-local database in just a single function! 😱

#javascript #database #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Rasheed K Mozaffar

Jan 23 '24

Introducing Flowbite Blazor WASM Starter Project

#dotnet #css #opensource

2 min read

Nathan Tarbert for Winglang

Jan 23 '24

😎 9 Trending Open Source Projects to Watch for in 2024

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Marc Seitz

Jan 18 '24

How to add the OSS Friends page to your Next.js website

#opensource #webdev #nextjs #tutorial

3 min read

tq-bit

Jan 22 '24

15 open-source tools to elevate your software design workflow in 2024

#webdev #productivity #opensource #programming

6 min read

DASWU

Dec 25 '23

How We Achieved a 40x Performance Boost in Metadata Backup and Recovery

#ai #opensource #kubernetes

14 min read

Jan 13 '24

A web app companion for using GPT - ChatCraft

#opensource #ai #webapp #programming

2 min read

Jan 23 '24

Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained — Part 1.3

#opensource #nextjs #webdev #javascript

4 min read

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