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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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appbase.io

Jan 11 '19

Dejavu 3.0: The missing Web UI for Elasticsearch

#elasticsearch #opensource #nosql

2 min read

Scott Chamberlain

Jan 8 '19

condition control: I just want that message once

#r #opensource #code #conditions

3 min read

Jan 10 '19

How I added AppVeyor, Codecov to .Net Core Open Source Project

#opensource #netcore

2 min read

Paweł Ruciński

Jan 8 '19

Running own opensource project

#opensource #github

3 min read

Mattia

Jan 8 '19

React devs to fight plastic waste around the world

#react #opensource #styledcomponents #javascript

1 min read

Dec 31 '18

Contributors wanted for draftapp.io

#contributorswanted #opensource #webdev #react

1 min read

Dec 31 '18

ON OPEN SOURCE AND BUILDING COMMUNITIES

#community #communitymanagement #opensource

11 min read

Faisal

Dec 26 '18

Looking for feedback/help on locopy

#python #opensource #contributorswanted #data

1 min read

Josh Ghent

Dec 28 '18

I don’t know what to say…

#opensource #javascript #softwaredevelopment #github

3 min read

Shaffan Mustafa

Dec 22 '18

My First Contribution to Open Source In a While

#opensource #commonlisp

2 min read

metamn

Dec 21 '18

Seven essential qualities of open source

#opensource #matthewbutterick

1 min read

Shubhadeep Banerjee

Dec 14 '18

A new messaging protocol for real-time systems

#iot #opensource #python #networking

1 min read

Yuri Alves

Dec 12 '18

It feels so good to finally release a product.

#showdev #opensource #javascript #feedback

1 min read

Dec 7 '18

An Idea To Build Open Source For Animal Welfare

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Swapnil Agarwal

Dec 5 '18

💬 devSwag #7 - Loads of stickers + Telegram Access

#showdev #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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