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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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Oct 29 '19

Understanding Git, Github and Contributing to open Source Projects

#git #github #opensource

3 min read

Oct 26 '19

The Best Thing for Your Resume

#career #opensource

1 min read

Manuele J Sarfatti

Oct 29 '19

Introducing CRAL: Create React App Laravel

#showdev #react #laravel #opensource

2 min read

adro.codes

Oct 28 '19

Why haven't I done hacktoberfest before?

#opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript

3 min read

Oct 28 '19

MyJournal.Notebook Add-In for OneNote: Journaling Made Easy

#dotnet #onenote #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jeremy Katz for Tidelift

Oct 28 '19

It's the end of Python 2. Are we prepared?

#opensource #python

3 min read

Vesi Staneva for SashiDo.io

Oct 28 '19

5 reasons to choose Open Source Parse Server and SashiDo for your Backend

#backend #opensource #parseserver #mbaas

5 min read

Oct 26 '19

An Answer to "How to introduce your project to the world?"

#opensource #beginners

3 min read

admin-dashboards

Oct 28 '19

Open-Source Admin Dashboard - Material Dark

#opensource #dashboard

2 min read

Ali Abbas

Oct 25 '19

Big Companies and Startups Interview Questions 🏆

#hiring #webdev #github #opensource

26 min read

Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Oct 28 '19

Lessons in Managing a Distributed Team

#remote #opensource #productivity #management

6 min read

Patricio Ferraggi

Oct 26 '19

How I found a problem with Angular unit testing and decided to fix it myself.

#showdev #angular #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Oct 25 '19

How to introduce your project to the world? 💭

#discuss #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Ali Abbas

Oct 23 '19

Google Summer of Code 🏆

#opensource #github #contributorswanted #webdev

4 min read

Steven Mercatante

Oct 23 '19

📢 Announcing React Timeline

#showdev #react #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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