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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 22 '20

Popular Kotlin Server-Side Libraries

#kotlin #codenewbie #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Ayu Adiati

Nov 21 '20

Contributing To An Open Source by A First-Timer (Part 2)

#opensource #git #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

Andy Yang

Oct 23 '20

Refactoring code - git rebase

#opensource

1 min read

Nov 20 '20

GitHub README for easy to understand code

#github #opensource #csharp

2 min read

Nov 18 '20

Fork & Branch Git WorkFlow 🛤️

#beginners #github #git #opensource

3 min read

Alan Lee

Nov 20 '20

How to Automatically Connect Jira Tickets to Google Sheets with Reshuffle

#opensource #reshuffle #google #jira

4 min read

John Johnson Okah

Nov 16 '20

3 Lessons I Learnt from being a Lazy Programmer

#productivity #programming #python #opensource

3 min read

Nov 18 '20

A React library to build Diagrams with ease

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Nicolas Hourcard for QuestDB

Nov 19 '20

What is time-series data, and why are we building a time-series database (TSDB)?

#devops #database #opensource #sql

7 min read

Chandra Kiran G

Nov 19 '20

Manjaro ... You'll definitely love 💙 it !

#linux #opensource #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

Adrian Matei for Codever

Nov 19 '20

How to easily filter bookmarks list with Angular pipes

#showdev #angular #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 15 '20

Django Admin Customization - Black Dashboard

#django #dashboards #opensource #appseed

4 min read

Smruti Ranjan Sahoo

Nov 15 '20

How to Contribute to Open Source Project

#opensource #github #firstpost

3 min read

Nov 14 '20

Why You Should Start Contributing to Open Source Software Right Now

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Nov 18 '20

I Used GitHub's Profile README Feature

#github #readme #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

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