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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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Budibase

Mar 4 '22

30+ free CRUD app templates to help speed up development

#opensource #webdev #beginnners

2 min read

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Matt Hamilton for RippleX Developers

Mar 4 '22

XRPL Grants Wave 3 Theme: Contributing to Open Source

#xrpl #xrplgrants #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

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Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Mar 4 '22

#2 Medusa News: Release of Medusa v1.2 ⚡️

#news #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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Aydın Akyol for Refine

Feb 21 '22

Top React JS Frameworks Every Developer Should Know

#react #webdev #opensource #javascript

5 min read

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Erik Lundevall Zara

Mar 4 '22

Take a cue to supercharge your configurations

#productivity #cue #configuration #opensource

10 min read

giulibaroz

Mar 4 '22

Build a Video Approval Tool on Appsmith with Airtable and Notion

#opensource #lowcode #appsmith #tutorial

11 min read

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Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Mar 4 '22

#1 Medusa News: Official launch 🎉

#news #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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Atulpriya Sharma

Mar 4 '22

Getting started with ArgoCD in under 5 mins!

#tutorial #opensource #git #devops

4 min read

Mar 2 '22

15 useful Lodash methods for everyday coding

#javascript #beginners #lodash #opensource

4 min read

Anthony Viard for JHipster

Mar 3 '22

We analyze the JHipster Community Survey on YouTube

#jhipste #opensource #javascript #java

1 min read

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ankeliu for Stellar Development Foundation

Mar 3 '22

Build NFTs on Stellar during 48-hour hackathon

#challenge #javascript #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

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Brandon Roberts for Appwrite

Mar 2 '22

Building Custom Cloud Functions using NodeJS with Appwrite!

#appwrite #node #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Agam

Mar 3 '22

Self-hosted newsletter tech stack for $0-7/mo

#newsletter #selfhost #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

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Ali Naqvi

Mar 3 '22

PipyJS - A functional style JavaScript engine for programming Pipy

#javascript #opensource #networkproxy #pipy

6 min read

Jeet Patel

Mar 3 '22

Everything You Need to Know About Shopify Development and Marketing

#webdev #devops #css #opensource

3 min read

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