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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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lotusleaf

Apr 27 '21

We Created An Open-source Emoji Library (Without Going to the Emoji Authorities)

#opensource #emoji #webdev #programming

1 min read

Elizabeth

Apr 28 '21

My open-source experience via SCA Contributhon

#opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 26 '21

AWS open source news and updates #65

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Davide 'CoderDave' Benvegnù

Apr 27 '21

Learn GitHub Quickly with GitHub Learning Lab

#github #learn #codenewbie #opensource

3 min read

Apr 26 '21

Migrating Flossbank from Vercel to Netlify

#vercel #netlify #opensource #nextjs

5 min read

Lane Wagner for Boot.dev

Apr 29 '21

Migrating From Vue-CLI & Webpack to Vitejs

#javascript #opensource #vue #vite

5 min read

Apr 26 '21

Contributing to Prometheus

#devops #opensource #go #programming

5 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Apr 26 '21

Orange: The No-Code Tool for Machine Learning

#python #datascience #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

Javid Mougamadou

Apr 23 '21

💬 Chatwoot : Nice open-source customer support tool, chatbot (Alternative to Intercom)

#productivity #opensource #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Apr 23 '21

Top tips for using GitHub

#opensource #githunt

4 min read

Randy

Apr 23 '21

I'm working on an open-source, lightweight alternative to Disqus

#opensource

1 min read

Davide 'CoderDave' Benvegnù

Apr 22 '21

Nasa Open Source Goes to Mars | GitHub and the Ingenuity Helicopter

#github #nasa #mars #opensource

2 min read

Apr 22 '21

GitHub Externship ❤️ Hoppscotch

#github #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Apr 22 '21

Postman alternative

#discuss #opensource #firebase #vscode

1 min read

Sajad Ahmad Nawabi

Apr 22 '21

Material Tailwind – New Framework for Web Developers

#webdev #opensource #designtool #webapp

4 min read

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