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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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Darsh Shah

May 20 '20

Graduation Day 🎓

#github #octograd2020 #opensource

2 min read

Ahmed Mohamed Abd El Ftah

May 19 '20

How To Choose Open Source Package

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #git

3 min read

May 20 '20

10+ Free and Open-Source Ghost Themes for 2020(Nodejs)

#javascript #node #opensource #themes

4 min read

hsahovic

May 20 '20

poke-env, a python library for Pokemon Reinforcement Learning

#python #machinelearning #opensource #octograd2020

2 min read

Welly

May 20 '20

✨ Introducing react-cool-dimensions: React hook to measure an element's size and handle responsive components

#react #hook #opensource #javascript

3 min read

May 19 '20

Should you use Express-session for your production app?

#opensource #webdev #authentication #oauth

8 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 18 '20

AWS open source news and updates - No. 20

#aws #opensource

13 min read

May 18 '20

Adoptoposs.org – Find Co-maintainers For Your Open Source Project

#showdev #news #opensource #github

6 min read

Gil Tayar

May 18 '20

Mock all you want: supporting ES modules in the Testdouble.js mocking library

#node #testing #opensource

15 min read

Joakim

May 18 '20

Denoliver - I created a small, dependency free, live-reload file server for Deno

#showdev #deno #opensource #webdev

1 min read

May 18 '20

📁 FoldersLint: Directory structure linter for JavaScript projects

#javascript #frontend #opensource #node

3 min read

May 18 '20

Supercharge Whatsapp™ Web with hotkeys and a dark theme 🚀

#showdev #opensource #webdev #productivity

1 min read

Jay Gordon for Microsoft Azure

May 14 '20

Open Sourcing Your Creativity

#opensource #music #musing #beginners

6 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

May 5 '20

Announcing: The Twilio Hackathon Winners!

#showdev #twiliohackathon #opensource

2 min read

May 10 '20

How to Use OBS Studio to Record or Stream Live Presentations

#beginners #tutorial #streaming #opensource

8 min read

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