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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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Jun 18 '19

Korolev. Slimming pill for Web

#scala #webdev #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 14 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

7 min read

Jun 18 '19

Flutter Bootcamp Vadodara 2019

#dart #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Subbu Lakshmanan

Jun 17 '19

Learn by contributing to Open Source

#android #kotlin #opensource

4 min read

Jun 17 '19

Flip links, Bold form, Hero unit | Module Monday

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

May 29 '19

🧠 Learn! 5 Github Repos With Great Free & Open Source Resources

#webdev #beginners #opensource #programming

1 min read

Leapfrog Technology for Leapfrog Technology, Inc

Jun 17 '19

Introducing Chill: An OpenSource Service Monitoring Tool

#opensource #technology #tech #react

3 min read

Jun 16 '19

People should stop calling GPL/LGPL as "freedom licenses" without knowing what freedom really means in this context

#opensource #linux #github

2 min read

Jun 16 '19

Contributing to open source for beginners. How and Where!

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Tom Malkin

Jun 16 '19

SimQLe - very simple SQL in Python

#python #sql #opensource

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Jun 13 '19

Rails to Introduce View Components

#news #ruby #rails #opensource

1 min read

Rik Schennink for PQINA

Jun 14 '19

Generating Image Thumbnails in the Browser using JavaScript and FilePond

#javascript #webdev #opensource #html

7 min read

Jun 14 '19

Resilience for Java microservices. Circuit Breaker with Resilience4j

#java #microservices #opensource #devops

2 min read

Jun 14 '19

🔖 Bookmarklets Manager Chrome Extension!

#dev #opensource #showcase

1 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 10 '19

New Project: Repo Recap!

#showdev #meta #ruby #opensource

1 min read

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