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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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Jan 8 '24

Week 1: The Meet and Greet

#outreachy #opensource #teamwork #developers

2 min read

Shrijal Acharya

Jan 11 '24

✨ Top 5 Underrated Open Source Projects that no one talks about 🫵🤐

#productivity #devops #opensource #programming

5 min read

Jan 19 '24

GitHub Readme: Responsive? 🤔 Animated? 🤯 Light and dark modes? 😱 You bet! 💪🏼

#github #opensource #webdev #css

6 min read

Thomas Bnt

Jan 6 '24

2024, me voilà ! 🤩

#devresolutions2024 #opensource #career

1 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Jan 25 '24

Resume Driven Contributions

#career #opensource

4 min read

Jan 8 '24

Mixtral-8x7b Simplified

#opensource #llm #machinelearning #beginners

3 min read

Imam Ali Mustofa

Jan 7 '24

Can I Dare You? Contribute to the fck. Framework!

#discuss #opensource #php #programming

2 min read

Regina Liu

Jan 6 '24

How AnimatePresence in framer-motion works

#react #webdev #opensource #learning

4 min read

Manoj

Jan 8 '24

solid principles in java

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Kevin Hernández Rostrán

Dec 18 '23

🇨🇷 Hecho en Costa Rica: Hacienda CLI

#hechoencostarica #opensource #costarica #go

4 min read

Jan 8 '24

I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar

#webdev #frontend #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Rutam Prita Mishra

Dec 9 '23

4th Time Hacktoberfest Contributor

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Shreya for Firecamp

Dec 18 '23

11 free and fun APIs you must use in your side project

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Yaron Karni for Intuit Developers

Jan 7 '24

GraphQL, gqlXPath, and Enhanced Transformer

#graphql #opensource #intuit #xpath

10 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Jan 7 '24

Securing Data: Apache APISIX's Strategies Against Leakage

#security #programming #devops #opensource

3 min read

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