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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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skptricks

Aug 7 '18

Facebook Style Drop Down Menu Design Using CSS

#javascript #html #css #opensource

1 min read

Aug 2 '18

First open source contribution

#opensource #rails #agileventures #slack

1 min read

tranbathanhtung

Aug 4 '18

Re-jok - A small react UI component library built with styled-components

#showdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Jul 30 '18

Module Monday: Congress lookup, Pricing page, Welcome message, & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Alex Astva

Aug 3 '18

Every 4000 lines of Android code contain a potential vulnerability

#android #cpp #devops #opensource

1 min read

Hilde N

Aug 4 '18

Sysinfo parser for a window manager status bar

#discuss #c #dwm #opensource

1 min read

Jul 28 '18

Building a static React App to share encrypted notes

#showdev #react #learning #opensource

1 min read

Jul 11 '18

The dev.to codebase will go open-source on August 8

#meta #opensource

2 min read

Karl Heinz Marbaise

Jul 30 '18

Automate It - Be Lazy - Part II

#devops #maven #opensource #git

12 min read

Jul 30 '18

Not sure what to build? Here's a desktop app idea that solves a real problem for people who create videos

#discuss #opensource #desktop

1 min read

Joseph Mancuso for Masonite

Aug 1 '18

Masonite Coding Tip: Abstracting Recurring Controller Code

#python #opensource #framework #masonite

2 min read

Karl Heinz Marbaise

Jul 27 '18

Automate It - Be Lazy - Part I

#devops #maven #opensource #git

4 min read

Jul 23 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (July 23 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jul 24 '18

How to Build 2 Factor Auth for Home Wi-Fi?

#discuss #opensource #security

2 min read

Jul 27 '18

Need ideas for call captioning app

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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