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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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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jan 10 '22

How to set up Vue with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#showdev #tailwindcss #opensource #vue

4 min read

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Jan 10 '22

Breaking of two NPM libraries show that everything isn't right in FOSS ecosystem

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

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Jan 10 '22

How to sunset your OSS Project with Grace

#opensource #career #javascript

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📦 Top alternatives for "colors" and "faker"

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

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Daniel Thompson-Yvetot for Tauri

Jan 10 '22

Sustaining Community

#opensource #tauri #sustainability #productivity

3 min read

Jan 10 '22

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#showdev #cpp #opensource #tutorial

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The architecture of an Electron app ported to Web

#typescript #electron #webdev #opensource

8 min read

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ogoh cyril

Jan 8 '22

The EndGame - Fakerjs

#discuss #javascript #fakerjs #opensource

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Torsten Dittmann for Appwrite

Jan 7 '22

Can Appwrite handle 25 Million documents?

#performance #opensource #programming #database

3 min read

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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jan 7 '22

How to install Tailwind CSS with React and Flowbite

#react #tailwindcss #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Adam Gordon Bell

Jan 7 '22

Migrating Your Open Source Builds Off Of Travis CI

#opensource #beginners #webdev

6 min read

Shubhendra Singh Chauhan for ToolJet

Jan 7 '22

Build WhatsApp and SMS CRM app in 10 mins using low code

#showdev #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

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Linh Truong Cong Hong

Jan 7 '22

Build a social network with ReactJS, Spring Boot and MongoDB

#react #java #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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Amir M. Mohamadi

Jan 7 '22

Intro to FlatifyCSS - Modern flat design framework for the web

#css #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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Michelle Duke for GitHub

Jan 7 '22

Get your GitHub 2021 year of contributions in 3D

#opensource #yearinreview #tutorial #career

2 min read

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