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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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uliyahoo for CopilotKit

Nov 21 '23

✨11 React Components to Become a Pro 🦃🍁 🥧

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

5 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Nov 23 '23

Delving Deeper in a Project #1, more refactoring with Git Grep

#beginners #opensource #programming #cpp

4 min read

Nov 3 '23

Docusaurus: Understanding the sitemap feature

#typescript #programming #opensource #documentation

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 22 '23

Open-source number input component examples with Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #flowbite #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Kellen for QuestDB

Nov 22 '23

Solving duplicate data with performant deduplication

#programming #opensource #database #architecture

8 min read

Mark Phelps for Flipt

Nov 21 '23

3 Essential Lessons After Hundreds of Open Source Developer Interviews

#devops #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

TestMu AI Team for TestMu AI

Nov 22 '23

Selenide-Appium – Mutated Java Appium Client [Testμ 2023]

#testing #opensource #javascript #appium

9 min read

Nov 22 '23

How I did my first opensource contribution and so can you?

#javascript #opensource #frontend

4 min read

Nov 20 '23

You forget RethinkDB, it's a shame

#database #development #programming #opensource

6 min read

Nov 11 '23

PostgreSQL Backup and Restore Strategies

#apacheage #postgressql #database #opensource

2 min read

Nov 21 '23

🔥 Frontend update: the Gowebly CLI now supports daisyUI components library

#go #webdev #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Nov 22 '23

Keep on working on open-source Spring Boot project

#opensource #java #springboot #mysql

2 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Nov 21 '23

Release project with npm

#opensource #beginners #npm

2 min read

Yousef

Nov 11 '23

Unit Testing

#opensource #beginners #testing #dotnet

4 min read

OpenSource

Nov 21 '23

Coding Together: How I found friends behind the screen

#opensource #community #beginners #career

2 min read

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