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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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Abby Nduta

May 15 '24

My Outreachy Application Journey

#opensource #webdev #cloud #python

4 min read

May 15 '24

Open Source Admin Dashboard Starter: Ant Design v5, TypeScript, MongoDB

#react #javascript #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

May 14 '24

Getting Started with Middleware Open Source

#productivity #opensource #devops

3 min read

May 15 '24

Why I moved from CloudWatch to Errsole!

#opensource #javascript #devops #aws

2 min read

Palomino for Logto

May 14 '24

Comparing token-based authentication and session-based authentication

#webdev #security #programming #opensource

4 min read

Oliver Li

May 15 '24

Java Code Change Impact Analysis

#opensource #testing #java #python

4 min read

May 15 '24

Installation of PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux

#programming #opensource #postgres

1 min read

May 14 '24

Deepfake Nightmares: Mitigating the Threat of AI-Fueled Masquerade Attacks

#cybersecurity #security #learning #opensource

2 min read

Michał Głomba

May 14 '24

We released an open-source platform for fast development of enterprise applications

#webdev #opensource #java #javascript

3 min read

May 14 '24

Open Source Hardware

#opensource #tutorial #beginners #learning

6 min read

May 14 '24

Tips from Open source: Use shadow DOM to avoid potential CSS breaks

#javascript #nextjs #opensource #react

5 min read

May 14 '24

GIS software development dive-in, the essentials

#webdev #opensource #database #data

4 min read

May 14 '24

Top 4 python libraries to make beautiful Google maps🌐

#webdev #python #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Pachi 🥑 for Webcrumbs

May 13 '24

Call for Papers: JS Builders Meetup!

#speaking #community #javascript #opensource

2 min read

May 8 '24

How to get CMS in any Next app with one line

#nextjs #webdev #opensource #programming

19 min read

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