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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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Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Nov 30 '19

Introducing Nomoogle - Your Very Own Privacy Friendly Bear

#showdev #opensource #webdev #discuss

3 min read

Nicolas Hourcard

Dec 2 '19

QuestDB - fast relational time-series DB, zero GC java

#database #java #opensource #sql

1 min read

giongto35

Dec 1 '19

CloudRetro - Open Source Cloud Gaming Service for Retro Games written in Go

#showdev #go #opensource #githunt

4 min read

Dec 2 '19

A better way to fund OSS

#opensource #javascript #typescript

2 min read

Dec 1 '19

A Login Form built using React Hooks

#react #typescript #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Nov 28 '19

5 Open Source Projects That Will Make You Smile

#opensource #funny #linux #pizza

4 min read

Dec 1 '19

A Technical Guide To Version Control System (VCS) Internals

#vcs #versioncontrol #git #opensource

20 min read

Carolyn Stransky for Meeshkan

Nov 22 '19

How to remove condescending language from documentation

#tutorial #documentation #opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Dec 1 '19

How to link to your old posts like a pro in GitHub Pages blog

#jekyll #opensource #writing #webdev

3 min read

Nov 30 '19

I created a startup to fund my nearly abandoned 2.6k star Open Source project and others like it

#opensource #npm #javascript #git

4 min read

lindelof

Nov 30 '19

A React component for particles backgrounds

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Nov 29 '19

How to create Alexa skill

#beginners #javascript #git #opensource

2 min read

Alberto Vena for SolidusIO

Nov 29 '19

SolidusConf 2019: the 3 reasons that made us love it

#techtalks #ruby #rails #opensource

7 min read

Olle Pridiuksson

Nov 27 '19

The ultimate checklist for a company GitHub

#showdev #opensource #git #motivation

5 min read

Christian Otieno

Nov 28 '19

Behaviour Driven Development

#todayilearned #tdd #rails #opensource

1 min read

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