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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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IndigoWizard for Micro Club

Feb 2 '20

A flexible and durable strategy for archiving open source projects.

#github #opensource #microclubusthb

2 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Feb 2 '20

Best icon & desktop themes for Linux distros 🤔, share your favs 🤓

#discuss #opensource #linux

1 min read

Kyle Boe

Jan 31 '20

Who's looking for open source contributors? (January 31st edition)

#contributorswanted #opensource

1 min read

Jan 29 '20

Open Up to Open Source Contributing

#beginners #opensource #contributorswanted

4 min read

Feb 1 '20

From 0 to Go, Building a CLI for Postwoman

#showdev #go #opensource #github

3 min read

Jan 31 '20

CliFx - opinionated framework for building CLI applications

#showdev #dotnet #csharp #opensource

12 min read

Jan 30 '20

Learn Git, Github, and Opensource – Course

#opensource #github #git

2 min read

Max Ong Zong Bao

Jan 31 '20

How Should I Apply OpenAPI/Swagger?

#opensource #webdev #beginners

4 min read

Jan 30 '20

You become responsible, forever, for what you have published on NPM

#npm #javascript #opensource #node

2 min read

Team RudderStack for RudderStack

Jan 30 '20

5 Best Practices for Tracking In-app Event Data

#opensource #android #ios #rudderstack

6 min read

suvhotta

Jan 30 '20

Python - Regex Functions

#python #opensource #beginners #oop

3 min read

curquiza for Meilisearch

Jan 30 '20

An alternative RubyGems search bar based on an opensource search engine

#opensource #search #webdev #ruby

1 min read

Mr F.

Jan 28 '20

How to install Flutter on macOS using homebrew and asdf

#flutter #productivity #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

sergiolc

Jan 30 '20

Plugcore, an Open Source Framework based on Nodejs & Typescript

#node #typescript #framework #opensource

3 min read

Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Jan 29 '20

Open Source Creator Series, Part 3: How to Choose an Open Source License

#opensource #licensing #diy #bootstrap

2 min read

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