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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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Feb 7 '18

About README.md on GitHub

#github #learning #opensource

1 min read

Elazizi Youssouf

Jan 31 '18

Introducing reactjs-popup 🎉 — Modals, Tooltips, and Menus — All in one

#showdev #react #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jan 29 '18

A License to Confuse

#discuss #opensource

4 min read

Jan 31 '18

GitHub Project: TestLog (Ruby)

#ruby #testing #opensource

1 min read

Nuster Cache Server

Feb 1 '18

nuster - A web caching proxy server based on HAProxy

#showdev #devops #opensource #linux

2 min read

Php Profi

Jan 25 '18

Reincarnation of popular PHP package for Slack

#php #slack #package #opensource

2 min read

Seth Michael Larson

Jan 23 '18

Mashpack - Beating Messagepack at its own Game

#showdev #python #messagepack #opensource

6 min read

Jan 21 '18

Contributing to Open Source

#opensource #learning #git #beginners

4 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jan 17 '18

Can Android flourish WITHOUT Google?

#linux #mobile #opensource #web

5 min read

Jan 18 '18

jQuery X - The Bolt-On MVVM To jQuery

#javascript #mvvm #opensource

2 min read

Dell Ward

Jan 17 '18

Project Suggestions

#react #javascript #opensource #projects

1 min read

C. Dylan Shearer

Jan 16 '18

How to Support Multiple OSes with One Mac

#testing #opensource

8 min read

kelseyevans for Datawire

Jan 12 '18

Ambassador and Istio: Edge proxy and service mesh

#showdev #opensource #programming

2 min read

Jan 9 '18

Learn how to contribute to the TypeScript compiler on GitHub through a real-world example

#typescript #opensource #compilers #javascript

13 min read

Yohei Seki

Jan 11 '18

Cattaz: Wiki collaboration tool with markdown and applications

#cattaz #wiki #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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