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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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Jul 5 '21

Open Source projects in Flutter

#flutter #opensource #programming

2 min read

Jul 5 '21

Package Flutter Linux App Into AppImage Part 2

#flutter #appimage #linux #opensource

2 min read

Ujjwal (UG THE SEP)

Jul 5 '21

How to create Multiple PR in GitHub

#github #opensource #programming #devops

1 min read

Budibase

Jun 16 '21

Top 10 open source development tools (tried and tested)

#opensource #webdev #beginners #javascript

8 min read

Jun 28 '21

How to enable GitHub Actions on your Profile README for a snake-eating contribution graph 🐍

#github #markdown #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Florencia Gonzalez

Jul 3 '21

How to install popular Linux distros

#linux #ubuntu #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Jul 2 '21

Getting started with Probot

#codenewbie #github #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Jun 30 '21

GitHub Bots for every open-source project

#codenewbie #opensource #webdev #github

5 min read

Daniel Polito for kool.dev

Jun 22 '21

Running Laravel on Docker is really easy with Kool

#laravel #docker #opensource #kool

3 min read

Jun 30 '21

An Open Source No-Code Solution for Kubernetes Deployment now on Minikube

#kubernetes #devops #devtron #opensource

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 28 '21

AWS open source news/updates #74

#opensource #aws

12 min read

Jun 29 '21

Why Python?

#python #programming #community #opensource

6 min read

Johannes Millan

Jun 28 '21

Super Productivity v7 is out!

#productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jun 24 '21

Top 10 Useful GitHub Browser Extensions

#github #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jun 27 '21

Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)

#opensource #java #contributorswanted #testing

2 min read

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