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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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Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 28 '20

To be an open source maintainer you need to be kind and also "get rid of your ego"

#opensource #react #typescript

4 min read

Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

Oct 28 '20

Collabora Online Community Roundup #1

#opensource #office #mobile #cloud

9 min read

Chethana Gopinath

Oct 28 '20

I did it!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #rails #ruby

2 min read

Avinash (Avi) Harsh for WEAVR

Oct 28 '20

Weavrs n' Makrs @Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource #inclusion #content

2 min read

Oct 27 '20

Deploying a website with Netlify

#html #css #javascript #opensource

2 min read

María Arias de Reyna

Oct 28 '20

Are online events the new normal?

#events #opensource

13 min read

Oct 28 '20

The Difference Between Props, Slots and Scoped Slots in Vue.js

#vue #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Raghavi Srinivasan

Oct 28 '20

My first step 👣 towards open-source

#opensource #hacktoberfest #git #github

1 min read

Loralighte

Oct 27 '20

Linux Smartphones Are Here.

#linux #smartphones #opensource

3 min read

Nahrin Jalal for Vonage Developers

Oct 28 '20

12 Bots To Better Your Open Source Project

#opensource #career #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Oct 27 '20

Deploying Next.js on Netlify

#javascript #react #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

Avo for Avo

Oct 27 '20

How we create and manage a ReasonML Code Style Guide at Avo in a democratic and open way

#reason #codequality #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Oct 27 '20

Installing MySQL Workbench And XAMPP on Ubuntu-18.04 and higher

#opensource #database

2 min read

Marcin Michniewicz

Oct 27 '20

Simplifying life: Using GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration in a BPMN Visualization open source project

#opensource #bpmnvisualization #processanalytics #github

4 min read

Oct 27 '20

Public ReasonML Code Style Guide @Avo

#reason #opensource

1 min read

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