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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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Gaetano Checinski

Nov 3 '18

Conduit - C++ Lazy Stream Processing Library using Coroutine TS

#c #opensource #coroutines #streamprocessing

1 min read

Henry

Nov 2 '18

Released the Hope in Source Podcast!

#faith #hope #opensource #community

1 min read

Adrien Trouillaud for Admiralty

Oct 30 '18

Introducing Multicluster-Controller

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

3 min read

Wajahat Karim 🇵🇰

Nov 1 '18

The End of Hacktoberfest — The Beginning of NaNoWriMo

#writing #developer #hacktoberfest #opensource

5 min read

Oct 16 '18

Muxer, looking for #hacktoberfest contributors

#hacktoberfest #react #python #opensource

1 min read

Oct 25 '18

ClassicPress launches - alpha version ready for testing

#showdev #wordpress #opensource #php

1 min read

Oct 20 '18

Tracking down the painful bugs

#opensource #tools #vscode

2 min read

Oct 17 '18

Reshort - looking for opinions and contributors!

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Harry Gill

Oct 16 '18

Introducing 'sparkpost' a Rust Crate for email API

#showdev #rust #opensource

2 min read

yutarokoga

Oct 15 '18

Get income from OSS with volvox

#opensource #blockchain

1 min read

Wajahat Karim 🇵🇰

Oct 14 '18

Quickly & Easily Validating Your Text with Easy Validation

#android #kotlin #opensource #library

4 min read

Oct 14 '18

One question survey for WordPress developers

#wordpress #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Oct 11 '18

Looking for Contributors and Sponsors for CVPM (Computer Vision Package Manager)

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 8 '18

Deer

#electron #notes #react #opensource

1 min read

Vasyl Stokolosa

Oct 10 '18

JavaScript library that provides useful functional programming helpers

#discuss #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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