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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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Apr 1 '19

My first open source project - super simple cli testing tool

#testing #go #opensource #shell

3 min read

Mar 26 '19

Was MongoDB Ever the Right Choice?

#discuss #mongodb #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Haripriya Lekshmi

Mar 28 '19

Tips to Improve MySQL Query Performance

#mysql #rdbms #relationaldatabase #opensource

1 min read

Khalis

Mar 28 '19

The first code grab I made

#beginners #tutorial #node #opensource

1 min read

Benjamin Gammaire

Mar 27 '19

An open source plateform for collaborating on global issues

#react #opensource

1 min read

Mar 23 '19

@cshooks/usetrie, A React Hook for Typeahead/Autocomplete

#react #javascript #npm #opensource

2 min read

Sven A for Webiny

Mar 18 '19

Webiny - Serverless CMS

#opensource #serverless #javascript #react

1 min read

Mar 16 '19

FindCollabs: Share Your Open Source Projects and Find Collaborators

#showdev #webdev #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Dariusz Rybicki for EL Passion

Mar 14 '19

EL Passion Showcase

#opensource #codequality #testing #agiledevelopment

1 min read

Nate Clark

Mar 8 '19

Getting My First PR Merged

#opensource #python

3 min read

Artyom Keydunov for Cube

Mar 7 '19

Building Open Source Mixpanel Alternative. Part 2: Conversion Funnels

#serverless #node #opensource #javascript

5 min read

Niklas Heidloff

Mar 6 '19

Recent Java Updates from IBM

#java #jvm #opensource

3 min read

Mar 4 '19

Real-time streaming of every emoji posted as a comment to Reddit.com 🔥

#showdev #opensource #javascript #python

3 min read

Manjunath

Feb 27 '19

5 Trends in Software Testing that You Should Know About

#testing #softwaretesting #opensource

6 min read

Feb 22 '19

A Flexible Node Authentication Boilerplate With Email.

#showdev #node #authentication #opensource

2 min read

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