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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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BekahHW for Virtual Coffee

Oct 1

Opening Our Hearts and Our Repo: Virtual Coffee's Journey to Open Source

#opensource #community

2 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Oct 1

21 React Projects Too Awesome to Ignore

#react #javascript #opensource #programming

24 min read

Programming with Shahan

Oct 2

5 open-source tools every developer should know

#webdev #beginners #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Oct 2

Dive into Open Source: Make Your Mark with Hacktoberfest 2024

#hacktoberfest #opensource #tutorial #beginners

3 min read

Oct 2

Hacktoberfest 2024 is ON!

#hacktoberfest #2024 #opensource

1 min read

Oct 2

My First Hacktoberfest Contribution!!!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev #javascript

3 min read

Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

Oct 1

Announcing Appwrite’s Hacktoberfest 2024 Hackathon: Build, innovate, and win!

#opensource #hacktoberfest #appwrite #programming

2 min read

Oct 1

How Project Ideas Can Come From Anywhere - My Open Source Daily Puzzle Game

#opensource #webdev #react #typescript

2 min read

Ezpie

Oct 1

Building privatus: Day 2 - day 6

#buildinpublic #opensource #socialmedia

3 min read

Gliimly

Sep 30

Web Service 101 Hands On with Gliimly

#webdev #beginners #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Sep 30

AIM Weekly from 30 September 2024

#milvus #opensource #vectordatabase #ai

4 min read

Karina Babcock for Causely

Sep 30

The use of eBPF – in Netflix, GPU infrastructure, Windows programs and more

#networking #opensource #observability #ebpf

5 min read

thinkThroo

Oct 1

queueMicroTask in JavaScript

#javascript #typescript #opensource #queuemicrotask

3 min read

Oliver Bennet for GraphPe

Sep 30

Step by Step Guide: How to Install Grafana on Ubuntu 24.04

#ubuntu #grafana #installation #opensource

1 min read

Brijesh Dobariya for CodedThemes

Sep 30

Best Open-Source React Dashboards on GitHub

#react #opensource #github #devtools

10 min read

Astrodevil

Oct 1

10 AI Assistants for Frontend Developers That Will Change the Way You Code🚀🔥

#webdev #opensource #ai #beginners

13 min read