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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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Jan 22 '19

Any contribution to Open Source is valuable

#opensource #gatsby

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jan 25 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Jan 25 '19

Feedback on Portfolio

#help #portfolio #feedback #opensource

1 min read

Jan 24 '19

GitHub Actions is the next big thing

#github #podcast #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Jan 27 '19

My First 10,000 Gem Downloads

#ruby #opensource #github #rubygems

1 min read

Jan 16 '19

What's your typical process for reviewing a pull request in GitHub?

#discuss #github #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Jan 23 '19

Top 3 Best Laravel eCommerce Packages

#laravel #php #ecommerce #opensource

3 min read

Jan 26 '19

A gallery for your reveal.js presentations

#rust #opensource

5 min read

Rafal Pienkowski

Jan 22 '19

Microservices by example with DevMentors

#microservices #architecture #opensource #ddd

3 min read

Alex

Jan 25 '19

Detect faces in photos and draw overlay filters

#python #opensource

1 min read

Jan 25 '19

Top 3 Projects Using Symfony Components

#opensource #symfony #php #productivity

2 min read

Abraham Williams

Jan 22 '19

Announcing v0.5 of my Metadata Reflection API polyfill for TypeScript decorators

#typescript #javascript #announcement #opensource

1 min read

Jan 20 '19

What is it to be a Mozillian?

#rust #opensource #linux

6 min read

fceruti

Jan 24 '19

Juggling server tasks with screen

#opensource #productivity #devops #linux

2 min read

Jan 14 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Jan 14th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

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