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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 22 '20

He refactored He's Dead, Jim while Rome burned

#opensource #python #github #git

2 min read

Oct 22 '20

Exploratory data analysis of Instagram using instascrape and Python

#python #datascience #opensource #webscraping

6 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Oct 16 '20

I open-sourced a portfolio template built with React and Tailwind!

#javascript #opensource #react #css

1 min read

Samar Abbas for Temporal

Oct 21 '20

A 10+ year Journey

#discuss #microservices #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Sep 18 '20

Sidegig project: Art Prints

#showdev #watercooler #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Oct 21 '20

15, But Completed HacktoberFest, Here's how.

#hacktoberfest #beginners #github #opensource

2 min read

Lane Wagner for Boot.dev

Oct 28 '20

6 Things to Avoid When Contributing to Open-Source Projects

#opensource #codenewbie #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 21 '20

How to Build a SMS-Powered Survey System with Reshuffle Open Source

#opensource #tutorial #javascript

4 min read

Sriram Ramkrishna for Sesame by ITRenew Engineering

Oct 21 '20

Circular Datacenter - Working with Ecosystems

#devops #opensource #openhardware #linux

3 min read

Oct 24 '20

Goodbye Google

#opensource #openbsd #selfhosting

2 min read

Oct 17 '20

Beginner's guide to Git and Open-Source Contribution

#github #git #versioncontrol #opensource

9 min read

Oct 20 '20

Scrape data from Instagram with instascrape and Python

#python #datascience #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Himadri Ganguly

Sep 30 '20

YaraSilly2 Open Source Threat Intelligent Project For Contribution In HacktoberFest

#hacktoberfest #python #opensource #github

3 min read

Oct 15 '20

Building a basic website with Parcel

#html #css #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Oct 20 '20

Tee or Tree fest ? - Hacktober dilemma

#hacktoberfest #opensource #react #github

6 min read

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