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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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Soham Shah

Feb 11 '21

7 Open Source Spirits you must know!

#opensource #github #beginners #webdev

6 min read

Donald Fischer for Tidelift

Feb 11 '21

Tidelift catalogs and the rising urgency of managing your open source supply chain

#opensource #supplychain

6 min read

Cristien

Feb 11 '21

Contributing to an Open Source Project - journal

#opensource #codenewbie #javascript #reactnative

3 min read

Gitlab Meetup Community

Feb 10 '21

Kubernetes Components and Architecture

#kubernetes #devops #opensource

3 min read

Feb 9 '21

Hotwire in Action 🚀

#opensource #rails #stimulus #django

2 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Feb 10 '21

My Top 5 Python Libraries, I used in 2020 !

#python #programming #github #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 9 '21

Monitoring and logging with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow

#aws #opensource

12 min read

Feb 9 '21

How I Learned About Contributing to Open Source Projects By Creating One

#devjournal #opensource #tips #less

4 min read

Feb 9 '21

React-toastify v7 is live

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Feb 7 '21

Open Source Real-world Ruby and Rails Applications 🔥

#showdev #ruby #rails #opensource

2 min read

Mohammad Bagher Abiyat

Feb 6 '21

How to read open source js libraries

#react #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Feb 9 '21

Why #100DaysOfCode?

#challenge #codenewbie #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 8 '21

AWS open source news and updates #55

#aws #opensource

13 min read

Arya Soni

Jan 10 '21

Open Source Project

#opensource #github #react #machinelearning

1 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Feb 8 '21

Making a Twitch bot to connect to GitHub • Pair Programming

#twitch #opensource #github

2 min read

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