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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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Aug 13

Introducing Dev Encyclopedia: A "Wikipedia", but for developers

#webdev #beginners #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Emil Pearce for novu

Aug 14

Building Open Source React Components for Real-Time Notifications

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

11 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Aug 14

Interview with Johans Justs Eris, Tauri Developer for Blenderbase at PhysicalAddons

#tauri #rust #opensource #cloud

1 min read

Keir Davie for SaaScape

Aug 14

SaaS Management System

#webdev #opensource #contributorswanted #devops

1 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 14

Numbers and Narratives: The Power of Tracking Your Open Source Journey and Telling Your Story

#opensource

5 min read

KienHT

Aug 14

Enhance Visual Testing CI Pipelines with Cypress Image Diff GitHub App

#cypress #testing #ci #opensource

3 min read

ArtisticMK

Aug 14

Intro to Animate4vue: Your New Vue.js Animation Companion

#vue #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Breno Lira

Aug 14

Creating Standalone Widgets with Svelte: My Journey and Solutions

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Leo

Aug 14

Podcast Production with streamtasks

#showdev #opensource #podcast #productivity

3 min read

Aug 14

11.5K Stars! Discover Why This Web Application Firewall Tool is a Must-Have!

#docker #devops #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

MotorBuy6

Aug 14

SafeLine: The No.1 Free and Open-Source Next-Gen Intelligent WAF

#cybersecurity #opensource #devops #docker

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 14

SafeLine WAF: The Ultimate Lightweight Web Application Firewall for Security

#cybersecurity #security #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Arek Krysik for Stratoflow

Aug 14

Open Source Real Estate Software: Options For Market Professionals

#opensource #webdev #softwaredevelopment

6 min read

Aug 14

SafeLine WAF: A Powerful Web Application Firewall

#cybersecurity #opensource #docker #webdev

3 min read

Lulu

Aug 14

SafeLine: The No.1 Free and Open-Source Next-Gen Intelligent WAF

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #waf

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 14

11.5K Stars! This Web Application Firewall Tool is Incredible!

#cybersecurity #opensource