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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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mydeveloperplanet

Jan 26 '21

How to Start Contributing to Open Source

#java #opensource

8 min read

John William Davis

Jan 29 '21

A Walking Stick and a .vimrc 🌄 ⌨️

#vim #productivity #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 28 '21

Accessing your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow environments

#aws #opensource

7 min read

Jan 28 '21

How to make a random password generator using javascript

#html #css #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jan 28 '21

Launching Resuminator: single-page resumes without the hassle!

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 27 '21

Working with permissions in Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow

#aws #opensource

10 min read

Maks

Jan 25 '21

How to get 2000+ Github stars in 2 days

#github #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jan 27 '21

Why should you consider Chaos Engineering!

#opensource #productivity #career #kubernetes

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 26 '21

Automating the installation and configuration of Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow

#aws #opensource

14 min read

Jan 27 '21

Pyswahili (Python for non-english speakers)

#python #programming #codenewbie #opensource

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jan 24 '21

React dashboard tutorial: learn how to get started with an admin interface built with React.js and Bootstrap 5

#react #opensource #bootstrap #tutorial

14 min read

Jan 6 '21

New VScode extension - connecting developers with the OSS community to solve code issues in real-time

#vscode #opensource #100daysofcode #vue

1 min read

Hillary Nyakundi

Jan 26 '21

How To Get Started With Open Source Project Contribution

#opensource #git #programming #devops

2 min read

Jan 23 '21

Git Setup for OpenSource/Public Development

#git #github #opensource

3 min read

Fum

Jan 26 '21

A beginner friendly guide to making your first open source contribution

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #github

9 min read

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