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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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Sanjampreet Singh

Aug 8 '23

Simplifying API Calls with URLSearchParams and Fetch

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Nikolai Trukhin

Aug 8 '23

Swiftly Chatting: Building Chatbots with Botter

#swift #tutorial #opensource #backend

5 min read

Aug 8 '23

My First Open Source Contribution: How I Did It

#opensource #web3 #learning #beginners

7 min read

Aug 8 '23

Secutils.dev beta release is now public

#buildinpublic #opensource #security #microsaas

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 7 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #168

#opensource #aws

22 min read

Vitali Haradkou

Aug 8 '23

It's done! Rust-like API in your JavaScript code

#javascript #programming #opensource #productivity

2 min read

silencer.xyz for ILLA Cloud

Aug 8 '23

Exploring Top 9 Retool Alternatives for Enterprise Applications in 2023

#webdev #opensource #cloud #lowcode

13 min read

Francesco Sardone

Aug 8 '23

Linting Your Awesome Lists

#awesome #linter #terminal #opensource

2 min read

Kara Luton

Jul 20 '23

A Guide to Perfecting Pull Requests

#webdev #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Klemens

Aug 8 '23

Developing a YouTube Subscription Analysis Application with Python

#python #tutorial #opensource #datascience

2 min read

Fernando for IDURAR AI , Inc | Where Ai Build Software

Aug 7 '23

IPv4 vs. IPv6: Bridging the Digital Divide

#opensource #beginners #programming #security

3 min read

Aug 8 '23

Web Development Roadmap 2023 for beginners

#webdev #beginners #opensource #html

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 4 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 53)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Bap

Aug 4 '23

How do Companies Make Money in Open Source? 🤑

#opensource #github #codenewbie #learning

3 min read

ShabeerAlavi-Codez

Jul 9 '23

SecureCred

#opensource #android #security #github

1 min read

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