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Open Source

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.

submission guidelines

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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May 23

When Netlify asks you to full-time OSS, you say yes!

#netlify #opensource #solidjs

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Everly Precia Suresh for Appwrite

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Appwrite Storage Meets Wasabi Cloud Storage

#opensource #appwrite #tutorial

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Intesar Shannan Mohammed

May 23

What is DAST, and Why Should Developers Use It?

#security #programming #opensource #api

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Tuasegun

May 23

A Guide to writing Industry Standard Git Commit Message

#git #github #programming #opensource

3 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

May 23

Which Frontend Framework Would You Use For an Ecommerce Storefront?

#discuss #javascript #webdev #opensource

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May 23

ActiveAdmin vs ToolJet

#opensource #tooljet #framework

4 min read

May 23

Make your first open-source contribution

#git #github #programming #opensource

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