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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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Slim Coder

Feb 9 '20

How Much a Full Time Open Source Contributor Earn ?

#help #opensource #github #discuss

1 min read

Prosper Otemuyiwa

Jan 14 '20

Who is Speaking On Your Behalf?

#devrel #opensource #growth

6 min read

Jacob

Feb 9 '20

Flask Buddy - simple Flask App management.

#python #webdev #opensource #management

1 min read

Yashu Mittal for LogChimp

Feb 9 '20

Creating an open source software to collect user feedback

#showdev #opensource #github #discuss

2 min read

Katarina Harbuzava for Flatlogic

Feb 6 '20

Top Angular Open Source Projects

#frontend #webdev #angular #opensource

10 min read

xanderle

Feb 8 '20

Installing Arch Linux on Mac Hypervisor

#archlinux #opensource

3 min read

Feb 8 '20

Help me decide on a meta attribute for dev bookmarks

#watercooler #discuss #opensource #bookmarks

1 min read

Ali Abbas

Feb 7 '20

Awesome GSOC Resources 🏆

#github #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Feb 5 '20

Amazing Nuget Libraries for C# Development

#csharp #opensource #azure #architecture

1 min read

Feb 6 '20

How to become a powerful open source hero

#career #mentalhealth #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Katarina Harbuzava for Flatlogic

Jan 31 '20

Best React Open-Source Projects

#webdev #frontend #react #opensource

12 min read

Amir Rustamzadeh for Cypress

Feb 6 '20

Introducing Firefox and Edge Support in Cypress 4.0

#testing #e2e #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Astrit

Feb 7 '20

Yin and yang - Pure CSS, transparent, single element icon

#css #webdev #html #opensource

2 min read

Feb 6 '20

Kubernetes and Istio service mesh workshop materials

#showdev #beginners #opensource #kubernetes

2 min read

Feb 5 '20

How I hacked my cats with an Arduino

#arduino #iot #robotics #opensource

2 min read

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