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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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Nevo David for Gitroom

May 14 '24

🚀 The easiest way tech influencers and content writers can make money 💰

#webdev #opensource #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Upsun

May 17 '24

Level up[sun] your Symfony skills ✨

#php #webdev #devops #opensource

2 min read

Scofield Idehen

May 16 '24

Do you Know Only Fools Use APIs Doc Platform?

#api #programming #opensource #learning

3 min read

May 17 '24

Apply for Apache Answer’s Project at OSPP 2024

#opensource #apache #student #go

3 min read

May 14 '24

Code and Community: A GSoC Diary

#opensource #community #gsoc #webdev

10 min read

May 16 '24

How I fixed this Next.js error: Refused to load the script because it violate Content Security Policy directive

#javascript #nextjs #react #opensource

4 min read

May 16 '24

Is Open Source More Secure? Understanding the Nuances

#opensource #security #developers #os

2 min read

Cait Bixby for Tidelift

Apr 12 '24

Upstream rewind: the 2023 Upstream maintainer panel and the insights that resonate in 2024

#upstream #maintainers #opensource #xz

4 min read

Apr 13 '24

Optimize feed in ChatCraft

#opensource #feed #programming #cloudflare

1 min read

Ivan Pegashev🚀

May 16 '24

FireCoder: Don't leave IDE for searching, just ask codegemma LLM in your VSCode.

#ai #vscode #coding #opensource

2 min read

Syakir

May 14 '24

How I Build Paradise UI: A React UI Component Library

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Palomino for Logto

May 16 '24

Logto product update: Compliance status, custom JWT, API resources for organization roles, and more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

Gaspard Boursin for Meteroid

Apr 29 '24

What we learned building our SaaS with Rust 🦀

#webdev #rust #opensource #beginners

9 min read

Igor AG

May 16 '24

10 Best Open Source CRM Solutions of 2024

#productivity #opensource

9 min read

yogini16

May 16 '24

Opinionated Architecture: Simple Guide for Beginners

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

2 min read

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