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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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Hannah Aubry for Fastly

May 11 '23

Community Spotlight: Una Thompson is Making the Fediverse More Manageable with Jortage

#fastforward #fediverse #community #opensource

5 min read

May 7 '23

J.A.R.V.I.S Crossed 500+ 🌟 Stars and 130+ Forks on GitHub!

#python #opensource #beginners #ai

1 min read

Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

May 10 '23

Participe do do Hackathon GitHub + DEV 2023

#braziliandevs #githubbrasil #github #opensource

6 min read

Andrea Liliana Griffiths for GitHub

May 10 '23

Cómo crear y administrar una organización en GitHub

#github #spanish #productivity #opensource

4 min read

HlexNC

May 10 '23

ChickenVision🐔👀: UI/UX Research and Design Update

#githubhack23 #opensource #development #uidesign

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Apr 26 '23

What is Bluesky Social Network? And why are developers excited about it?

#discuss #opensource #bluesky #blockchain

4 min read

awalias for Supabase

May 10 '23

Supabase Beta April 2023

#supabase #opensource #database

4 min read

May 10 '23

Streamlining Development: A Dive into Minimalistic Browser

#minbrowser #opensource #browser #minimalstic

1 min read

May 9 '23

AI-powered changelog updates on Slack, every Monday, with GitHub Actions

#github #opensource #githubhack23 #githubbrasil

3 min read

May 6 '23

Open-source Admin template dashboard for Tailwind CSS React ⭐️

#opensource #tailwindcss #react #webdev

1 min read

Shai Almog

May 9 '23

Java String Templates Today

#java #tutorial #opensource #coding

7 min read

Anne McCormick for Outshift By Cisco

May 9 '23

How to Get Started with Open Source

#opensource #beginners #learning

17 min read

auct

May 10 '23

I don't like js. I don't like htmx. So I created uajax - library to make form ajaxed

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Meteor Software

May 9 '23

New Meteor.js 2.12 and Blaze 2.6.2 Release

#javascript #meteor #node #opensource

2 min read

May 9 '23

Quick Start Guide to Amundsen Demo 🚀

#beginners #tutorial #datascience #opensource

7 min read

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