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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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Farhan

May 29 '21

Writing An Operating System - The Boot Process (Part 1)

#linux #computerscience #opensource #operatingsystems

4 min read

Vishnubhotla V D V Bharadwaj

May 29 '21

Python Open Source projects in GitHub

#python #github #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Sm0ke

May 27 '21

Updated Dashboards - Soft UI, AdminKit, Volt Bootstrap 5

#webdev #bootstrap #react #opensource

3 min read

Leonidas Costas

May 28 '21

User's location by browser's permission or IP address

#react #node #opensource

2 min read

Shatakshi

May 25 '21

How To Make Your First Contribution As a Beginner In Open Source

#opensource #beginners #community

6 min read

May 27 '21

My Journey to GSoC

#gsoc #openwisp #opensource

4 min read

May 27 '21

Introduction to AMP

#webdev #computerscience #opensource #codenewbie

4 min read

Manasa

May 27 '21

How I got selected as an Outreachy intern with Public Lab

#opensource #webdev #outreachy #ruby

3 min read

CoScreen for CoScreen - Deep Collaboration for Engineers

May 26 '21

Join the Electron Developer Office Hour

#codenewbie #opensource #devjournal #electronjs

2 min read

Sm0ke

May 25 '21

SB Admin - Free Bootstrap 5 Template

#webdev #sbadmin #opensource

3 min read

Pranav Viswanathan

May 26 '21

Deploy a Simple Website Using Github Pages

#github #opensource #html #css

1 min read

May 25 '21

Github 101

#github #git #opensource #contribution

7 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 24 '21

AWS open source news and updates #69

#opensource #aws

14 min read

May 25 '21

Disclose what you collect

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #privacy

1 min read

May 24 '21

ngx-awesome-popup Interactive modals on steroids 🚀

#angular #npm #typescript #opensource

2 min read

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