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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 17 '20

We just released free analytics to empower OSS!

#productivity #tooling #analytics #opensource

1 min read

Dec 16 '20

LinkAce - Your self-hosted bookmark archive

#news #php #opensource

3 min read

fquinner

Dec 12 '20

Windows 10 as a Linux Window Manager with WSL2

#showdev #productivity #opensource #development

3 min read

Dec 16 '20

Open Source Program which can help you to become a cool developer ( specially for student )

#opensource #newbie #devscriptwoc #scriptwoc

1 min read

Kostas Bariotis

Dec 13 '20

📽 Presentador: Build a presentation by writing Markdown

#opensource

1 min read

Budibase

Dec 15 '20

6 tried and tested ways to get more Github Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#beginners #webdev #opensource #github

3 min read

Nov 12 '20

Arduino: o que é essa plataforma

#arduino #opensource #eletronics #computerscience

4 min read

Budibase

Dec 15 '20

Budibase 0.4.2 has been released 🎉

#beginners #webdev #opensource #programming

1 min read

Dec 15 '20

Made Windows QR Code Generator

#python #devops #opensource #github

1 min read

Budibase

Dec 14 '20

Speeding up the dev process in 2021 ⚡⚡⚡

#beginners #webdev #productivity #opensource

11 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 14 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.48

#opensource #aws

22 min read

Thanh Tien Phat Nguyen

Nov 14 '20

Enhance your code readability with Prettier and

#opensource #prettier #eslint

2 min read

Deepjyoti Barman

Dec 9 '20

Happiness status of your GitHub repo: repostatus

#webdev #javascript #python #opensource

5 min read

Paula

Dec 12 '20

Wio terminal plant translator and other projects

#electronics #hardware #opensource

4 min read

Nov 22 '20

Build creative Readme for your Github profile

#github #opensource #codewithgauri

1 min read

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