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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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Mr F.

Nov 27 '19

Yet Another Best MacOS Apps list 2019

#opensource #productivity #macos

4 min read

Nov 28 '19

Setting up my first OpenSource Python project

#opensource #python #automation #logs

1 min read

Nov 28 '19

Automating Kibana Visualisations Generation

#opensource #logs #automation #kibana

3 min read

Shahjada Talukdar for The Destro Dev Show

Nov 22 '19

TypeScript and C# both were created by the same person named Anders Hejlsberg 👏 💪 🔥(with video)

#typescript #csharp #opensource #oop

1 min read

Ali Abbas

Nov 27 '19

Serverless AWS Lambda Node Express MongoDB Boilerplate🚀

#javascript #github #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Saqib Ameen for daily.dev

Nov 26 '19

⚡️ Making Most Out of GitHub Templates

#webdev #opensource #github

3 min read

Max Ong Zong Bao

Nov 24 '19

Creating Dashboard to Visualise Data In Python

#python #webdev #design #opensource

3 min read

Kautilya Tripathi

Nov 27 '19

API using GraphQL and Node.js

#graphql #opensource #docker #typescript

1 min read

Nov 19 '19

Is C# worth learning in 2019?

#csharp #dotnet #opensource

4 min read

Ruy Adorno

Nov 25 '19

⬢ Node Task List

#node #javascript #cli #opensource

2 min read

Nov 26 '19

The Difference between COMPUTED and WATCHERS in Vue.js

#vue #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

J. R. Swab

Nov 22 '19

Is VScode Truly Open Source?

#vscode #opensource #ide

2 min read

Daniel for Boost Note

Nov 26 '19

Support the new Boost Note and get your rewards!

#showdev #opensource #react #boostnote

2 min read

Yechiel Kalmenson

Nov 25 '19

Porting Envoy To Windows

#opensource #cloud #kubernetes #windows

1 min read

Nov 25 '19

Contributing to Quill, a Pairing Session

#scala #quill #opensource #howto

17 min read

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