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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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Shai Almog

Dec 20 '21

Open Source Software Product Development, Building DDTJ - Day 1

#startup #tutorial #opensource #product

7 min read

Štěpán Granát for Tolgee

Dec 20 '21

Using invisible text for better localization

#javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Luigi Zaccagnini

Nov 20 '21

Octo: Continuous Integration

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Dec 19 '21

🏆 MiroTalk - WebRTC - SFU - Open Source - alternative to Zoom - Microsoft Teams - Google Meet

#showdev #webrtc #opensource #github

1 min read

Code_Jedi

Dec 18 '21

9 Open Source Python Projects to Join in 2022!

#python #programming #opensource #github

3 min read

Dec 18 '21

BLOGTO: Vscode extension to help you post blogs to, Dev.to, Hashnode and Medium

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Dec 18 '21

Release 0.19.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - a security release

#githubaction #release #opensource

2 min read

Michael Bromley

Dec 17 '21

Open Source win: IBM shifts legacy commerce systems to my one-man OSS project

#opensource #startup

2 min read

TrystanCocolatte

Dec 17 '21

How to develop collaboratively and remotely with your team in 5 minutes

#programming #opensource #devops #productivity

2 min read

Matthew Foley for OpenSauced

Dec 16 '21

Implementing Dark Mode (Part 3)

#opensource #javascript #react #webdev

2 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Dec 16 '21

🤫 Something is cooking @ Medusa...

#opensource #webdev #javascript #react

1 min read

Dec 13 '21

Open-Source Exploitation

#opensource #career #webdev #webmonetization

13 min read

Dec 16 '21

How to Install Kubernetes on Windows 10?

#kubernetes #devops #cloudnative #opensource

3 min read

Halyna for Teleport

Dec 15 '21

How to SSH Properly

#ssh #opensource #security

15 min read

Dec 15 '21

Verifying GPG signatures: history, terms and a how-to guide

#gpg #pgp #cryptography #opensource

6 min read

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