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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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Nov 26 '20

664 Bytes reactivity

#javascript #typescript #react #opensource

2 min read

Ayu Adiati

Nov 21 '20

Contributing To An Open Source by A First-Timer (Part 1)

#opensource #git #tutorial #beginners

3 min read

Jimmy Guerrero for YugabyteDB

Nov 25 '20

Enabling pgAudit, pgcrypto and scram-SHA-256 in Distributed SQL

#opensource #sql #postgres #security

7 min read

Bobby

Nov 23 '20

Open-Source Introduction to Bash Scripting Ebook/Guide

#bash #100daysofcode #books #opensource

4 min read

Lasha Kakabadze

Nov 24 '20

My first Open Source project

#javascript #opensource #npm #webdev

2 min read

Pt. Prashant tripathi

Nov 19 '20

Open Source Bhagavad Gita API v3.1

#opensource #node #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Nicolas Fränkel for Hazelcast

Nov 24 '20

Announcing the Hazelcast Heroes Program

#opensource #community #hazelcast

1 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Nov 23 '20

RedwoodJS - bring full-stack to your JAMstack

#webdev #graphql #react #opensource

3 min read

Nov 24 '20

Fake It Till You Make It

#opensource #testing #python #java

13 min read

Scott

Nov 23 '20

I Contributed to Open Source (and it was hard...)

#opensource #beginners

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 23 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.45

#aws #opensource

22 min read

Rahul Jain

Nov 22 '20

Awesome FrontendMasters course resources

#codenewbie #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Hillary Nyakundi

Nov 23 '20

Beginner Python Projects part 1

#python #opensource #beginners #programming

1 min read

Abhijit Tripathy for eduAlgo

Nov 22 '20

eduAlgo: Awating contributors

#opensource #python #flutter #webdev

2 min read

VIMAL KUMAR for Web

Nov 22 '20

svghero: Javascript package for hero effect in SVG

#opensource #javascript #html #css

1 min read

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