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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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Cover image for Before I Die Code: Week 3 Roundup and Gratitude for Our Open Source Contributors

Alexander Clemens

Sep 4 '23

Before I Die Code: Week 3 Roundup and Gratitude for Our Open Source Contributors

#beginners #opensource #learning #contributorswanted

3 min read

Luis Fabrício De Llamas

Sep 4 '23

Dev Services for Databases

#quarkus #java #postgres #opensource

3 min read

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Sep 4 '23

LFX Mentorship - My Experience

#opensource #docker #devops #cloudnative

6 min read

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CrabNebula

Sep 4 '23

Meet the Team: Matthias & Knowledge Transfer

#rust #tauri #opensource #security

7 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 1 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 57)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Cover image for OSCM: The Open Source Consumption Manifesto

Edoardo Dusi for SparkFabrik

Sep 4 '23

OSCM: The Open Source Consumption Manifesto

#oscm #security #softwaresupplychain #opensource

5 min read

Sep 1 '23

9 Next.js Open Source Projects for Contributions 🚀🚀

#opensource #nextjs #webdev #javascript

3 min read

mmvergara

Sep 3 '23

Create a Discord Bot using Next JS

#nextjs #opensource #javascript #discord

2 min read

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Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

Sep 1 '23

Announcing Appwrite’s New .NET SDK

#appwrite #dotnet #csharp #opensource

3 min read

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Sep 3 '23

Building Digital Public Goods: Journey with the Open Healthcare Network

#opensource #development #community

3 min read

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Kaustubh Shinde

Sep 3 '23

Advance Tables using only HTML CSS and JavaScript

#codepen #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Johannes

Aug 28 '23

📃 👀 Run in-app surveys in your web app in 10 minutes with Formbricks 🤓❤️‍🔥

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

5 min read

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Kaustubh Shinde

Sep 3 '23

Introducing Stack UI

#ui #ux #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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Sep 3 '23

Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Astronomical week

#astro #javascript #node #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Introducing Quarkflow: Streamlining Your Development Workflows

Adityan

Sep 3 '23

Introducing Quarkflow: Streamlining Your Development Workflows

#opensource #quarkflow #cli #devtools

2 min read

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