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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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Jun 5 '23

Firebase VS PocketBase VS Appwrite

#discuss #webdev #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Kruno Golubic for Memgraph

Jun 5 '23

What is MIT License?

#opensource #memgraph #licensing #development

8 min read

Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

Jun 1 '23

Apresentando GitHubBrasil.com

#githubbrasil #braziliandevs #opensource #community

2 min read

Jun 4 '23

MongoDB Abstract Repository for Node

#node #webdev #mongodb #opensource

6 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jun 1 '23

Understanding Why Pull Requests Get Rejected in Open Source Projects

#opensource #codenewbie #webdev

3 min read

Jun 4 '23

How to commits to open source in GitHub. Step-by-step guide

#opensource #github #beginners #guide

2 min read

TheScott12

Jun 3 '23

How to Speed up the WPA/WPA2 Password Cracking Process using Cowpatty

#tutorial #linux #opensource #security

4 min read

Medea

Jun 3 '23

Newsletters on Portfolio

#opensource #webdev #newsletter #nextjs

1 min read

May 21 '23

OpenCommit: GitHub Action to improve commits with meaningful messages on every `git push` 🤯🔫

#githubhack23 #opensource #githubactions #git

5 min read

Miguel Manjarres

Jun 3 '23

Introducing 'firebaseauth' Spring Boot Library

#showdev #java #springboot #opensource

1 min read

Medea

Jun 2 '23

Svelte TimeTable Game

#svelte #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 30 '23

Exploring Imaginary Worlds

#watercooler #opensource #writing

3 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Jun 2 '23

Self-Host Your API Testing with Hoppscotch: The open-source API Platform

#webdev #opensource #api #tutorial

5 min read

Accreditly

Jun 2 '23

How the PHP community add features to the language itself

#php #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

Jonathan Reimer for crowd.dev

May 30 '23

How to grow a GitHub project to 20k stars? with Nevo David (Novu)

#opensource #developerled #marketing #growth

3 min read

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