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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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May 8 '23

UIs visually, backend in Python

#python #vue #indie #opensource

1 min read

Eduard Krivanek for Bitovi

May 28 '23

Collection of Vue Macros in Vue.js 3.3

#webdev #vue #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

May 25 '23

Entenda os tipos de licença open source e saiba qual usar nos seus projetos

#braziliandevs #githubbrasil #opensource #github

5 min read

Nikhil

May 28 '23

OSS projects and Non-profit 501(c)(3) vs Non-profit 501(c)(6)

#opensource #community

7 min read

May 28 '23

Open-Source Admin Dashboard Template Based on Tailwind CSS

#opensource #tailwindcss #css

1 min read

May 26 '23

Introduction to Open Source

#opensource #programming #ai #webdev

3 min read

May 22 '23

[Nestia] Make NestJS 30x faster with fastify

#typescript #nestjs #opensource #fastify

7 min read

Jonathan Reimer for crowd.dev

May 23 '23

ossjobs.dev 👋 land your next job in open source

#news #opensource #jobs #career

2 min read

May 27 '23

What is the cost of Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #programming

1 min read

May 27 '23

Simplify Your Documentation Workflow with MkDocs: A Markdown-based Alternative to Sphinx

#documentation #opensource #python #tutorial

2 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

May 24 '23

Building a message board with Next.js and AppWrite

#nextjs #webdev #tutorial #opensource

16 min read

Rupesh Sreeraman

May 31 '23

ShortGPT Lite

#ai #gpt3 #gpt4 #opensource

1 min read

May 26 '23

Visualizing the Impact of Code Changes

#opensource #ci #cli

2 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 26 '23

httpContext in Asp.net Core Web API

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

2 min read

Bap

May 23 '23

What is Open Source and Why is it so Goddamn Popular? 🤯

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #github

4 min read

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