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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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Celeste van der Watt for Platform.sh

Sep 27 '23

Blog series: Performance optimization of unfamiliar applications ✨

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #devops

1 min read

Sep 27 '23

Noice - 11,876+ Free SVG Icons, CC0 assets, open source icons library

#design #marketing #ui #opensource

2 min read

Sep 26 '23

Comparing Caddy to Nginx and Apache

#frontend #backend #opensource #devops

4 min read

Sep 26 '23

Building a scheduler for a Rust application

#buildinpublic #opensource #rust

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 22 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 60)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #100daysofoss

1 min read

Oct 8 '23

Adding a chat room to any app with one line of code

#news #opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

Yousef

Sep 26 '23

Merge Conflicts

#git #opensource #csharp

3 min read

Christine Belzie

Sep 20 '23

How are you prepping for Hacktoberfest?

#discuss #opensource #community #hacktoberfest23

1 min read

Shrijal Acharya

Sep 25 '23

Drizzle: ORM with SQL Superpowers🚀

#webdev #docker #opensource #programming

5 min read

Nischal Jain for Collectiv AI

Sep 25 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023 t-shirts are NOT entirely gone!

#hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Nick

Sep 26 '23

TPScore: transactions per second metrics made easy

#blockchain #polkadot #opensource #web3

2 min read

Zac_A_Clifton for novu

Sep 11 '23

We had a date bug that happened two times a year, and we didn't know, you might have it too 😱

#javascript #opensource #webdev #bug

5 min read

TestMu AI Team for TestMu AI

Sep 25 '23

Perform Easy Cross Browser Testing With LambdaTest WordPress Plugin

#opensource #testing #wordpress #programming

3 min read

Geri Máté for dyrector.io

Sep 25 '23

Product Hunt Is for the Cool Kids

#discuss #opensource #watercooler #startup

4 min read

Sep 25 '23

PyPyInstaller Powershell Module Initial Code Push

#powershell #python #opensource #windows

6 min read

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