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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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Jul 14 '24

I am developing a Text Input Component based on Skia and Canvas

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

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Introducing Campus Coders: Our Exciting New Project

#javascript #react #beginners #opensource

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Aug 16 '24

Use degit to download a template in your CLI tool.

#javascript #opensource #git #tarball

4 min read

Daniel Roe

Aug 16 '24

Using AI in open source

#ai #opensource

2 min read

Wanda

Aug 14 '24

Top 11 Open-Source API Documentation Tools

#api #devops #tooling #opensource

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 16 '24

Solving Bandwidth Issues Caused by Web Crawlers with SafeLine WAF

#devops #opensource #cybersecurity #webdev

3 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 15 '24

Unseen Impact: A Holistic View of Open Source Contributions

#opensource

7 min read

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Aug 15 '24

NextAdmin: A Complete Next.js Admin Dashboard Toolkit

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

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Emil Pearce for novu

Aug 14 '24

Building Open Source React Components for Real-Time Notifications

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

11 min read

Aug 16 '24

How to find contributors for your opensource project?

#github #opensource #saas

2 min read

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Aug 16 '24

Quira: Monetise your Open-Source work 💸

#opensource #monetise #quira #quests

3 min read

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Meet Munio: Improve your English conversation skills with AI!

#webdev #ai #web #opensource

2 min read

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Aug 15 '24

The Ultimate Guide to Git for Open-Source Development

#git #github #opensource #contribution

3 min read

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Experimental Wasm/Rust support for Pulumi

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

2 min read

Lulu

Aug 15 '24

A Brief Experience with SafeLine WAF Pro Edition

#cybersecurity #devops #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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