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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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Dec 31 '20

RDBMS Concept

#sql #opensource #datascience #database

2 min read

Swastik Baranwal

Dec 31 '20

My Review of 2020

#career #yearinreview #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Ana Vela

Dec 30 '20

Presenting The "Today I Learned" Tracker!

#codenewbie #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Erick Andrés Obregón Fonseca

Dec 27 '20

Yocto Project Tutorial: Baking a Minimal Linux Image from Scratch

#linux #opensource #tutorial #computerscience

6 min read

Yuan Gao

Dec 30 '20

LGTM Devlog 8: Starting a git repo for an open source project from scratch

#devjournal #github #git #opensource

4 min read

Manvendra Rajpoot

Dec 26 '20

Don't be scared, get started with Open Source as soon as possible.

#opensource #github #hackathon

4 min read

Autumn

Dec 28 '20

3 Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021 [Ultimate Guide]

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie

17 min read

Dec 31 '20

SQL Concepts

#sql #datascience #database #opensource

1 min read

Dec 27 '20

Power of the GitHub CLI

#github #opensource

2 min read

Dec 27 '20

Finding an organization for google summer of code

#showdev #opensource #codenewbie #discuss

2 min read

Dec 21 '20

How to write good documentation

#programming #devtips #opensource

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi

Dec 26 '20

Are you on Github?

#opensource

1 min read

Nov 25 '20

I made 100 high-quality illustrations, totally free. Use it anywhere without attribution.

#showdev #webdev #opensource #css

1 min read

Dec 24 '20

Publish My First NPM TypeScript Package

#javascript #npm #opensource #typescript

4 min read

Fleek for Fleek

Dec 23 '20

Why ENS Names are Much More Than Domains

#ens #webdev #opensource #blockchain

5 min read

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