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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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Tung Leo

Sep 15

DevOps Basics reaches 200 stars: A milestone celebration 🎉

#devops #opensource #tooling #cicd

2 min read

mahdi

Sep 15

Introduction to Gland

#webdev #programming #opensource #node

3 min read

Chris Arakelian

Sep 15

🚀 Introducing UI Slice: Your Ultimate Tool for Code Snippets and Reuse

#react #nextjs #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Abhimanyu Sharma

Sep 15

kubewall : A User-Friendly Kubernetes GUI Dashboard

#kubernetes #devops #infrastructureascode #opensource

2 min read

Sep 15

Radix UI for Angular is Finally Available!

#angular #radixui #opensource #react

1 min read

Kofi

Sep 14

What’s Holding You Back from Landing more Work?

#discuss #github #programming #opensource

1 min read

Sotiris Kourouklis

Sep 14

AI-powered Github leaderboard.

#opensource #webdev #ai

1 min read

Lulu

Sep 14

Why You Need This Decade-Old Open-Source WAF for Ultimate Web Protection

#opensource #webdev #docker #cybersecurity

2 min read

TheoForger

Sep 14

Issue Exchange!

#opensource #beginners

3 min read

Sep 14

Blog Post:My Rollercoaster Journey with Code Reviews, Bugs, and Fixes 🎢

#opensource #github #codereview #community

3 min read

Sep 14

A Journey Through Code Reviews: The Good, The Bad, and The “Wait, What?” Moments

#codereview #opensource #github

4 min read