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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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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

Kaku-g

May 20 '23

AI-Pdf Summarizer

#githubhack23 #webdev #github #opensource

2 min read

Ingo Steinke, web developer

May 17 '23

Audio and Video Recording and Editing Software

#video #opensource #productivity

7 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 12 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 41)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Bhavya Verma for BuildShip

May 18 '23

Automate GitHub Discussions with Rowy and OpenAI's GPT-3 API

#lowcode #opensource #github #chatgpt

8 min read

Fabian Reinders

May 18 '23

Running Nextcloud using Docker and Traefik 3

#tutorial #docker #opensource #devops

6 min read

Akalanka Perera

May 7 '23

AUTOMATING NPM PACKAGE PRERELEASES

#githubhack23 #devops #npm #opensource

10 min read

dREWbxKewb

May 7 '23

A Debrief on Svelte: Compile before Sending

#svelte #javascript #opensource #typescript

6 min read

May 18 '23

[Part 2] 🚀: I bet you have never used this VS Code theme. Ever. ⚡(Maybe ?)

#vscode #productivity #extension #opensource

3 min read

May 18 '23

Release 0.32.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - a security patch release

#release #opensource #githubaction #security

3 min read

Oscar

May 18 '23

Notetaking: On technical courses, and my personal habits

#opensource

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 10 '23

How to Write a Good Issue: Tips for Effective Communication in Open Source

#opensource #webdev #github #codenewbie

4 min read

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