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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 22 '23

The risk of Open Source vs. proprietary 3rd party libraries

#discuss #opensource #programming #business

2 min read

Erin Bensinger for The DEV Team

May 16 '23

#DEVDiscuss: Succeeding in OSS

#devdiscuss #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Brian Bethencourt for The DEV Team

Apr 25 '23

Announcing the GitHub + DEV 2023 Hackathon!

#github #meta #opensource

6 min read

Ahmed Atwa for OpenSauced

May 24 '23

Personalized Social Images: Enhancing User Profiles with Opengraph

#node #typescript #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Apr 17 '23

FLiPN-FLaNK Stack Weekly for 17 April 2023

#apachenifi #apacheflink #apachekafka #opensource

5 min read

Nándor Holozsnyák

May 21 '23

Commit Teller - Your personal story teller for your work

#githubhack23 #github #quarkus #opensource

4 min read

Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

May 18 '23

Como atrair mais contribuições para seu projeto Open Source

#braziliandevs #githubbrasil #opensource #github

4 min read

May 20 '23

3 Lightweight CSS Frameworks

#css #frontend #opensource #beginners

1 min read

May 18 '23

Is a project really Open Source without a public VCS?

#discuss #opensource #programming

1 min read

AssafKr for Livecycle

May 17 '23

Building A Slack Clone With Preview Environments

#nextjs #opensource #devops #docker

6 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 17 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 42)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Vinicius Koji Enari

May 20 '23

Maintaining a Python Package with GitHub Actions

#githubhack23 #python #github #opensource

2 min read

Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

May 16 '23

The Subtle Art of Hackathon Ideation

#hackathon #beginners #ideas #opensource

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

May 19 '23

How to build a phone mockup using only Tailwind CSS

#flowbite #tailwindcss #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Bazen

May 20 '23

The Memphis .NET SDK: My Journey from Contributor to Maintainer

#opensource #dotnet #memphis

5 min read

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