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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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Oleksandr Simonov for Amoniac OÜ

Feb 10 '20

What is Docker? Why is it important and necessary for developers? Part I

#docker #opensource #ruby #rails

9 min read

Feb 12 '20

Being a Good Developer: Six Tips for a Painless Code Review

#opensource #git #programming #codequality

5 min read

Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Feb 12 '20

Open Source Creator Series, Part 4: Documentation and Technical Writing 101

#opensource #writing #documentation #bootstrap

8 min read

Abhishek Gupta for ITNEXT

Feb 12 '20

How to use Open Application Model to run applications on Kubernetes

#showdev #kubernetes #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Feb 10 '20

Top 5 Awesome Things to do in your README!

#opensource #github

3 min read

Jan 11 '20

Compare Similar GitHub Projects with this GitHub Stats Tool

#statistics #github #stats #opensource

3 min read

ELABBASSI Hicham

Feb 10 '20

How to create a Dailynow mobile app in few minutes with React-Native and Expo

#reactnative #react #opensource

4 min read

Pimcore

Feb 12 '20

Why Flexible Data Modeling Is Key for Your Product Information Management Strategy

#opensource #datamodeling #pimcore

4 min read

AJ for Neurosity

Feb 11 '20

Using Your Mind to Print Hello World to the Terminal with Node

#javascript #node #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

Francisco Navarro

Feb 11 '20

Compile Python3.7 on Solaris 10

#python #opensource

2 min read

Feb 11 '20

Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration Process

#opensource #webdev #magentomigration #magento

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 10 '20

AWS open source news and updates #6 - keep up to date with everything that is happening.

#opensource #aws

5 min read

rhymes for The DEV Team

Feb 6 '20

Help us squash bugs in DEV with Honeybadger! 🐛

#meta #opensource

2 min read

Feb 8 '20

Peppermint OS - A Quick Review

#productivity #ubuntu #opensource #linux

2 min read

Feb 10 '20

Coronavirus Remover extension in javascript

#javascript #coronavirus #html #opensource

1 min read

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