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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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Oct 24 '20

Apache Kafka - Fundamentals, Use cases and Trade-Offs

#kafka #opensource #architecture #eventdriven

2 min read

Oct 23 '20

TODO application that dynamically changes the wallpaper as your todo list.

#todayilearned #flutter #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 2 '20

Happy Hacktoberfest! 🎃

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta #contributorswanted

4 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Oct 19 '20

Hacktoberfest Week Four — Thank you to our Contributors on Forem ❤️

#opensource #gratitude #meta #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Oct 24 '20

DJL - Deep Java Library

#opensource #java #machinelearning

2 min read

Sep 19 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 - GitHub 101 Virtual Meetup

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #codenewbie

1 min read

Oct 22 '20

He refactored He's Dead, Jim while Rome burned

#opensource #python #github #git

2 min read

Oct 22 '20

Exploratory data analysis of Instagram using instascrape and Python

#python #datascience #opensource #webscraping

6 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Oct 16 '20

I open-sourced a portfolio template built with React and Tailwind!

#javascript #opensource #react #css

1 min read

Samar Abbas for Temporal

Oct 21 '20

A 10+ year Journey

#discuss #microservices #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Sep 18 '20

Sidegig project: Art Prints

#showdev #watercooler #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Oct 21 '20

15, But Completed HacktoberFest, Here's how.

#hacktoberfest #beginners #github #opensource

2 min read

Lane Wagner for Boot.dev

Oct 28 '20

6 Things to Avoid When Contributing to Open-Source Projects

#opensource #codenewbie #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 21 '20

How to Build a SMS-Powered Survey System with Reshuffle Open Source

#opensource #tutorial #javascript

4 min read

Oct 24 '20

Goodbye Google

#opensource #openbsd #selfhosting

2 min read

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