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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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Fernando

Nov 11 '19

PostgreSQL backups to S3 with retention limits

#showdev #ruby #database #opensource

4 min read

Nov 10 '19

Benefits of contributing code to your favorite open source project(s)

#opensource #career #beginners #productivity

3 min read

Nov 10 '19

Top open-source packages with the most dependent projects on GitHub

#github #opensource #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Nov 1 '19

Hacktoberfest Has Finished. Thanks to All Those Who Took Part!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

2 min read

Praneeth

Nov 11 '19

My Entry to blockchain stack by ethwaterloo 2019 hackathon

#blockchain #opensource

2 min read

Nov 10 '19

The Journey Begins

#books #beginners #github #opensource

1 min read

Oct 27 '19

Issues with VSCODE License — You should worry

#vscode #ide #opensource

5 min read

Steven Randolph for realMethods

Nov 9 '19

We Built a Project Generator Because DevOps Needs One

#devops #productivity #docker #opensource

6 min read

Ruy Adorno

Nov 7 '19

npm@6.13.0

#npm #javascript #funding #opensource

2 min read

Victor de la Fouchardière

Nov 7 '19

💎 How to crawl a static website in Javascript in 4min 💥

#javascript #node #opensource #npm

4 min read

Keff

Nov 7 '19

Where can I ask for help for my Open Source projects?

#opensource #contributorswanted #javascript

1 min read

Nov 8 '19

Setting up a CSS build process with Gulp

#css #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

🦁 Yvonnick FRIN

Nov 7 '19

gitmoji-changelog v2 is out 🎉

#showdev #opensource #git #javascript

3 min read

Travis Fischer for Saasify

Nov 8 '19

One SaaS PH Launch a Week...

#opensource #saas #startup

2 min read

Nov 6 '19

My First Contribution to Firefox

#firefox #opensource #beginners #javascript

5 min read

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