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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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Frank Boucher ☁ for Microsoft Azure

May 6 '20

Simplify your deployment with nested Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

#devops #azure #arm #opensource

5 min read

Kristian Freeman for Cloudflare Developers

May 8 '20

Announcing new tools to debug your Cloudflare Workers applications

#serverless #webdev #opensource #cloudflareworkers

1 min read

Iqrah Nadeem for GitHub Campus Experts

May 7 '20

GitHub Satellite 2020 - My thoughts

#github #opensource #conference #keynote

6 min read

Raphaël Pinson for Camptocamp Infrastructure Solutions

May 8 '20

Deploying public keys in Docker containers

#showdev #devops #opensource #docker

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Apr 30 '20

10 open source SVG icon libraries that you can use for your next project

#opensource #icons #svg #webdev

7 min read

May 7 '20

#WebDev on web.dev - Lint tags for consistency #2240

#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Paolo

May 7 '20

Help me build a open source linear algebra library in Javascript

#help #opensource #mathematics

1 min read

Kristian Freeman for Bytesized Code

May 7 '20

Everything GitHub announced at Satellite 2020 in 15 minutes [video]

#techtalks #github #opensource

1 min read

Stephen Ou

May 7 '20

Fruition - free, open source toolkit for pretty URL slugs & custom domains for Notion

#productivity #opensource #notion #sideprojects

1 min read

May 6 '20

how we can prevent browsers from killing your RAM 🛑

#browsers #webdev #opensource #firefox

1 min read

Rafael Corrêa Gomes

May 5 '20

Check quickly the TTFB via terminal

#opensource #beginners #webdev #tutorial

2 min read

May 7 '20

Contributing to an Open Source Project

#webdev #opensource #github

4 min read

May 6 '20

Networking and Open Source: The What and the Why 👐

#opensource #career #productivity #github

5 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Apr 2 '20

Announcing the Twilio Hackathon on DEV

#announcement #twiliohackathon #twilio #opensource

4 min read

Rei Allen Ramos

May 1 '20

Free illustrations for your next project

#design #frontend #opensource

1 min read

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