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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.

submission guidelines

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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Archer Allstars

Mar 16 '23

Replace Google Drive with Storj, plus Rclone and Kopia.

#tutorial #productivity #web3 #opensource

10 min read

Mar 16 '23

Why did I become an open-source enthusiast?

#opensource #linux #undergraguate

3 min read

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Toma Rares

Mar 14 '23

I've made a Free drag and drop React Template Builder

#react #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Mar 16 '23

Hoppscotch @ FOSSMeet'23

#news #opensource #api #community

3 min read

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Mar 15 '23

Shopify vs. Medusa

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tutorial

11 min read

Dev Mehta

Mar 4 '23

Simplify your workflow with Pre-Commit Hooks

#github #opensource #programming #webdev

5 min read

Tech Tim (@TechTim42)

Mar 15 '23

The Power of Open-Source Software: My Story with Ubuntu

#ubuntu #cloud #opensource #linux

3 min read

Paulius for Exacaster

Mar 15 '23

Lightweight HTTP API for Big Data on S3

#deltalake #bigdata #opensource #s3

3 min read

tatyana

Mar 15 '23

Exploring MLflow experiments with a powerful UI

#opensource #machinelearning #mlflow #python

1 min read

Abdul Moiz Sheraz

Mar 15 '23

passing Props through link componet

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Mar 14 '23

Conventional Commits to keep git history clean

#git #productivity #ai #opensource

1 min read

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Amy Hays for Tidelift

Mar 14 '23

Upstream is on June 7: keynote speakers and call for presentations

#event #maintainers #supplychain #opensource

2 min read

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Mar 14 '23

Announcing the First Release of HydePHP: A Laravel-Based Static Site Generator

#hydephp #php #opensource

2 min read

Raffi Sarkissian for Lago

Mar 14 '23

Time zones are a nightmare for engineers

#opensource #billing

6 min read

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Zino Kader

Mar 8 '23

Portal - a modern file transfer utility 🌌✨

#showdev #shell #programming #opensource

4 min read

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