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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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Aug 20 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (August 20 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Aug 26 '18

DigitalOcean JS 1.0 Released!

#showdev #opensource #node

2 min read

Aug 27 '18

First draft of the ClassicPress mission statement

#discuss #wordpress #opensource #php

1 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Aug 30 '18

10 Trending Swift Repositories on GitHub this week

#opensource #swift #github

3 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Aug 24 '18

Tools I Use For Blogging

#blogging #beginners #opensource

3 min read

sarabadu

Aug 27 '18

who need unit test in their open source project?

#discuss #opensource #contrib #newbie

1 min read

Mike

Aug 29 '18

Where do you find your testers?

#help #askdev #opensource

1 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Aug 26 '18

Why I Joined Dev.to Community And You Should Too

#devto #opensource #developers #beginners

2 min read

Ryosuke

Aug 22 '18

Creating a Design System for ReactJS from Scratch

#showdev #design #react #opensource

10 min read

Karl Heinz Marbaise

Aug 26 '18

Continuous Delivery With Apache Maven

#maven #devops #opensource

8 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Sep 18 '18

What is Snap: The Raving New Way Software is Distributed in Linux?

#opensource #howto #linux

3 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Aug 22 '18

What Are Some Open Source projects Which Were Useful but now no longer maintained?

#discuss #askdev #opensource

1 min read

Aug 18 '18

Tips and Tricks to Finding Issues to Contribute to on Github

#opensource #beginners #tutorial #tipsandtricks

1 min read

Aug 22 '18

Gutenberg: "The new editor is coming ... continued attempts to make it not be are more than a little pointless"

#wordpress #opensource #php

1 min read

kelseyevans for Datawire

Aug 24 '18

From Monolith to Service Mesh, via a Front Proxy-- Learnings from stories of building the Envoy Proxy

#devops #opensource

5 min read

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