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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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Devs Daddy

Apr 8 '24

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#unity3d #opensource #gamedev #programming

2 min read

Giuliano Bellini

Apr 8 '24

Sniffnet 1.3 released!

#news #rust #opensource #networking

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Apr 8 '24

Building User Story & Use Case Generator using Lyzr SDK

#ai #opensource #api #development

7 min read

Jeet

Apr 7 '24

my first 100 stars on the GitHub repo

#github #opensource #go #sideprojects

2 min read

Apr 8 '24

NixOs - Your portable dev enviroment

#tooling #opensource #unix

3 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Apr 8 '24

Adding a Code Editor to your React App

#webdev #react #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Jeffrey Yu

Apr 6 '24

5 Simple Steps to Start Contributing to Open Source

#opensource #tutorial #github #beginners

4 min read

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Apr 4 '24

Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for calming an opinionated contributor? 😬

#discuss #opensource #maintainer

1 min read

Bap

Apr 5 '24

8 developer tools to watch in 2024

#webdev #productivity #opensource #programming

5 min read

Jake Page for Distr

Apr 4 '24

Why contributor guidelines matter.

#opensource #beginners #tutorial #github

5 min read

Apr 7 '24

Simplifying Markdown: A Beginner's Guide to Easy Writing

#opensource #writing

2 min read

Apr 6 '24

Clawject: Simplifying Dependency Injection in TypeScript

#typescript #node #opensource #solidprinciples

4 min read

Apr 4 '24

macOS vs Ubuntu: GitHub Actions Runners

#opensource #githubactions #github #os

2 min read

Apr 5 '24

Show Feed to ChatCraft users

#opensource #ai #feed #cloudflarechallenge

2 min read

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Apr 5 '24

What's New at Meteor: Beta Releases, Community Tutorials, and More

#webdev #opensource #meteor #community

2 min read

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