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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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Mar 14

Build your own ChatGPT starter kit

#openai #opensource #ai #nextjs

3 min read

Mar 14

Get respects at job for doing Conventional Commits

#git #productivity #ai #opensource

1 min read

Amy Hays for Tidelift

Mar 14

Upstream is on June 7: keynote speakers and call for presentations

#event #maintainers #supplychain #opensource

2 min read

zvone187

Mar 14

How I failed with 4 different products and how I started with open source

#testing #opensource #motivation #webdev

4 min read

Mar 14

Read OTP SMS- Expo / React Native (Android)

#reactnative #opensource #android #readsms

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 13

How to build a sticky banner component using Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #flowbite #frontend #opensource

6 min read

Toma Rares

Mar 14

I've made a Free drag and drop React Template Builder

#react #webdev #opensource

1 min read

ringabout

Mar 13

My Nim Development Weekly Report (3/12)

#nim #opensource #contributorswanted

3 min read

Anton Sukhachev

Mar 13

PHP Skeleton for Bison

#php #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Vinicius Blazius Goulart

Mar 13

How learning in public helped me in my journey

#opensource #career

4 min read

Mar 13

Medusa vs Shopify

#opensource #webdev #programming #tooling

6 min read

Sibelius Seraphini