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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 1 '19

Demystifying Open Source Contributions

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #beginners

5 min read

Jun 7 '19

The story of Marp Next

#markdown #javascript #slides #opensource

8 min read

Aaron Powell for Microsoft Azure

Jun 7 '19

Home Grown IoT - Data

#fsharp #iot #opensource #database

5 min read

Florimond Manca

Jun 5 '19

Entropic: federated JS package registry, announced at JSConfEU 2019

#news #discuss #javascript #opensource

2 min read

JavaScript Joel

Jun 4 '19

I will be 🔥 LiveCoding JavaScript on Twitch at 7:30 PM PST (Jun 4 2019)

#showdev #opensource #javascript #node

1 min read

Sai Sandeep Vaddi

Jun 5 '19

Launching Open Source side project. `Ten Hands`: a Command Line task organizing tool

#showdev #opensource #react

1 min read

Liran Tal

Jun 4 '19

npm passes the 1 millionth package milestone! What can we learn?

#npm #node #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jun 3 '19

Blog-like posts, Animate on Scroll, Action quote | Module Monday 41

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Kyle Boe

May 31 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 31st edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Daniel Shotonwa

Jun 1 '19

An easy approach to contribute to Open Source Projects

#opensource #ruby #rails #programming

2 min read

Jorge Cano

Jun 1 '19

Deberías colaborar en proyectos open source

#community #developer #opensource

2 min read

Mukesh Mithrakumar

Jun 1 '19

Scalars, Vectors, Matrices and Tensors with Tensorflow 2.0

#machinelearning #python #opensource #deeplearning

6 min read

May 31 '19

Image Titler 1.4.1 Features Borders

#showdev #github #python #opensource

3 min read

ARG

May 31 '19

6 Open-Source Alternatives to Proprietary Software: Self-Hosted Applications

#opensource #webdev

5 min read

May 31 '19

Dark Theme for Quora - Chrome Extension

#showdev #productivity #quora #opensource

1 min read

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