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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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Mohammed Ismail Ansari

Mar 28 '19

12 Reasons why I spend time on open-source software

#opensource #github #developers #life

5 min read

Mar 25 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (March 25th edition)

#discuss #contributorswanted #opensource

1 min read

Mar 27 '19

Charge, an opinionated, zero-config static site generator

#react #opensource #static #staticsites

1 min read

Mar 21 '19

Using npm's `ls` command for Fun and Insight

#javascript #node #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Lorenzo (Mec-iS)

Mar 27 '19

Being a Mentor at Google Summer of Code

#opensource #python #webapi #mentoring

1 min read

Mar 25 '19

Swipe cards, Spin.js, Image menu | Module Monday 33

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Muhammad

Mar 26 '19

Creating Interactive CLI App

#python #cli #opensource

3 min read

Mar 25 '19

Lightweight replacement of React + MobX

#react #typescript #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Katarina Harbuzava for Flatlogic

Mar 25 '19

Why We Made Our Premium Admin Dashboard Open-Source

#admindashboard #opensource #businessmodels

3 min read

Max Ong Zong Bao

Mar 24 '19

Thoughts on Open Source Startups

#discuss #startup #opensource #career

4 min read

Mar 24 '19

git is hard, but time travel in git is easy.

#git #github #debugging #opensource

2 min read

Isabella Muerte

Mar 23 '19

Everything You Never Wanted To Know About CMake

#cpp #cmake #buildsystems #opensource

12 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Mar 20 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Three Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

10 min read

Artyom Keydunov for Cube

Mar 21 '19

React Query Builder with Cube.js

#javascript #tutorial #react #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2 '19

Machine Learning With Python

#showdev #python #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

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