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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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Vandolf Estrellado

Jan 3 '22

Does extensive documentation do more harm than good?

#showdev #opensource #discuss #github

3 min read

Jan 2 '22

Getting started With Open Source

#opensource #beginners #programming #career

4 min read

William McGonagle

Jan 2 '22

🥳 How to Get More Stars on Github! (Part 2)

#discuss #tutorial #opensource #github

2 min read

Jan 2 '22

Google Solution Challenge 2022 Announced 🤩

#flutter #opensource #flow

3 min read

Jan 1 '22

Object Validator for PHP 8 V2.1.0 Release

#showdev #opensource #php #webdev

2 min read

Dec 31 '21

Aggregating Unit Test Coverage for All Monorepo’s Packages

#javascript #testing #node #opensource

6 min read

Alex Fallenstedt

Dec 30 '21

Streaming Tweets with Go

#go #opensource #twitter

7 min read

Dec 31 '21

Bring Your Home Network Anywhere For Free - Home VPN with WireGuard on Raspberry Pi + Pi-hole (Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS)

#privacy #tutorial #linux #opensource

5 min read

Shai Almog

Dec 31 '21

Remote Debugging on the Last Day of - Building DDTJ Day 10

#startup #opensource #product #programming

3 min read

Vedant

Dec 31 '21

Setup NAS on Raspberry Pi 4 - Part 1

#nas #raspberrypi #linux #opensource

2 min read

Dec 30 '21

Trending Python Projects of the week

#python #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Dec 30 '21

A11y Testing: Automating Screen Readers

#webdev #a11y #testing #opensource

10 min read

Shai Almog

Dec 30 '21

First Mocked Unit Test Generated by DDTJ - Building DDTJ Day 9

#startup #opensource #programming #testing

4 min read

Alex Inkin for Angular

Dec 24 '21

Taiga UI: A year in Open Source

#angular #opensource #typescript #javascript

5 min read

Dec 30 '21

Open Source Projects for Students in 2022

#news #opensource #linux #help

5 min read

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