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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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Dunsin

May 30 '24

The Ultimate beginners guide to open source – Part 2: Defeating the fear of contributing

#opensource #webdev #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Ramzi Issiakhem

May 30 '24

Let's create an Opensource Headless E-learning using Symfony

#opensource #symfony #webdev #devlog

3 min read

Hamish

May 30 '24

Unlocking Architectural Design with the .floor File Format

#3dmodelling #opensource #blender #architecture

2 min read

May 28 '24

How to use feature flags for staged rollouts

#opensource #devops #webdev #development

4 min read

May 30 '24

Thinking of migrating from Confluence but worried about losing data?

#opensource #resources #tutorial #productivity

1 min read

Zxce3

May 28 '24

Simplify Your PHP Development with a Handy Bash Script

#bash #php #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Ariel for Stacklok

May 29 '24

Blocking unsafe open source dependencies in pull requests with Minder and OSV.dev

#opensource #security #tutorial

1 min read

May 29 '24

Mysterious /sink route in ui.shadcn.com

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #shadcnui

2 min read

Palomino for Logto

May 29 '24

Integrating with Supabase

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

7 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 28 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #198

#opensource #aws

23 min read

Dunsin

May 29 '24

The Ultimate beginners guide to open source – part 1

#beginners #opensource #career #development

2 min read

Guillermo Ruiz for AWS Español

May 29 '24

Boletín AWS Open Source, May Edition

#opensource #aws

11 min read

May 29 '24

Jetpack Compose -Difference between mutableStateOf() and derivedStateOf()

#android #jetpackcompose #androiddev #opensource

2 min read

Derek

May 29 '24

How to Build a JavaScript PDF Editor with pdf-lib

#webdev #javascript #pdf #opensource

5 min read

Unicorn Developer

May 29 '24

What errors are lurking in LLVM code?

#cpp #opensource #programming

12 min read

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