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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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Vincent

Dec 15 '21

Sustainable Open Source Software

#discuss #security #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Dec 15 '21

10 holiday themed things to do as a developer

#christmas #holidays #githunt #opensource

4 min read

Dec 14 '21

How Hoppscotch is building an open source "API development ecosystem"

#opensource #testing #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Dec 15 '21

Small contributions may have more importance than you realize

#opensource #javascript #beginners #programming

3 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 14 '21

Soft UI Dashboard - Start fast with Bootstrap 5, Django and Docker

#boostrap5 #django #docker #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 14 '21

Setting up MWAA to use a KMS key

#opensource #aws

5 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 13 '21

Django Bootstrap 5 - Free Templates

#boostrap5 #django #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Paula Santamaría

Dec 9 '21

Using GitHub Actions to turn contributors into heroes of an open source game

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #gamedev

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 13 '21

AWS open source news and updates #93

#opensource #aws

11 min read

Dec 13 '21

Git in just a few minutes

#beginners #tutorial #git #opensource

3 min read

Dec 13 '21

Docker Made Easy🐳

#devops #docker #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Dec 13 '21

Create SVG from Javascript

#javascript #programming #opensource #svg

1 min read

Sandeep Valpasani

Dec 12 '21

Install Fedora 35 Linux with Windows 11/10 (Dual Boot)

#linux #opensource #devjournal #tutorial

5 min read

Estee Tey

Dec 13 '21

Be a dev detective with Sourcegraph 🔍

#opensource #webdev #vue #tutorial

6 min read

Bishwas Bhandari

Dec 4 '21

Linux probably isn't for you

#linux #opensource #programming #productivity

2 min read

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