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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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Muhammad Bin Zafar

Sep 7 '23

Ryan Dahl, and the story of his Wizardry in Opensource

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

2 min read

Ayu Adiati

Sep 11 '23

#100DaysOfOSS Recap: Day 28-50

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #webdev

5 min read

haimantika mitra for Appwrite

Sep 11 '23

Introducing 1.4 Lightning Hackathon: Functions

#hackathon #opensource #git

2 min read

Megabit

Sep 12 '23

Simple and easy-to-use JSON parser in C

#c #programming #json #opensource

3 min read

Alex Harris for Adadot

Sep 5 '23

Reacting with 💩👍🐛 to Code: How I Built a Free Extension to Add Emojis to Your VSCode

#showdev #opensource #programming #vscode

3 min read

Sebastian Wessel for PURISTA

Sep 12 '23

PURISTA - Tests with Jest, Sinon.js and Testcontainers

#javascript #typescript #testing #opensource

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 11 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #173

#opensource #aws

21 min read

Zoo Codes

Sep 11 '23

Getting Started with SMS Notifications using Africas Talking and GitHub Actions🐙

#tutorial #githubactions #devops #opensource

6 min read

Sebastian Wessel for PURISTA

Sep 11 '23

PURISTA: Build with rimraf, esbuild, Turbo & git-cliff

#typescript #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Sep 11 '23

How to Finetune Llama 2: A Beginner's Guide

#beginners #tutorial #ai #opensource

6 min read

Eduardo Oliveira

Sep 11 '23

Lidando com regressão visual: enfrentando desafios com Django, Selenium e Pillow

#braziliandevs #ui #django #opensource

6 min read

Shaan Alam

Sep 11 '23

🖊 I am building a pastebin alternative!

#opensource #webdev #react #nextjs

2 min read

Francesco Sardone

Sep 10 '23

Adding Tools To Your GitHub Repositories

#beginners #opensource #github #tutorial

5 min read

Sep 10 '23

TILvert, my first open-source project

#typescript #opensource #programming

1 min read

BekahHW for Virtual Coffee

Sep 5 '23

Join Virtual Coffee in the Preptember 2023 Monthly Challenge!

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners

2 min read

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