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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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Aug 16 '20

Has Umbraco turned into the "tourist trap" of open source .net CMSs

#umbraco #opensource

8 min read

Gabriel Cruz (he/him)

Aug 17 '20

I created the official MLH Fellowhip CTF competition as a fellow

#beginners #security #opensource #mlhgrad

4 min read

Julián Duque for Heroku

Aug 13 '20

Interested in IoT dev? Want early access to the Arduino Explore IoT kit? Tell us more...

#javascript #opensource #iot #arduino

2 min read

Aug 20 '20

Rick Astley is back!

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Aug 19 '20

What the Commit!

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Stephanie Morillo

Aug 12 '20

What are some examples of open-source projects with great READMEs?

#discuss #webdev #opensource #codenewbie

1 min read

Sean Chen

Aug 19 '20

Why I'm Switching from VSCode to OniVim

#onivim #opensource

4 min read

Thomas De Moor for X-Team

Sep 1 '20

How to Write a Great README

#code #beginners #opensource #github

3 min read

Amy Hays for Tidelift

Aug 18 '20

How urllib3 maintainer Seth Larson streamlined the release process

#interview #opensource #python

3 min read

Aug 18 '20

Add License Action

#actionshackathon #opensource #github #javascript

1 min read

Prathamesh Sahasrabhojane ✔️

Aug 18 '20

You Contribute, You Rock! (gh-action hackathon - WEEK 1)

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Swastik Baranwal

Aug 18 '20

Package Validator for V

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Aug 18 '20

The Three Terminal Tools I Use for Managing Kubernetes Clusters

#kubernetes #devops #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Aug 15 '20

Thanos Snap your repo

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

ch

Aug 18 '20

CardGame by ReactJS

#react #redux #github #opensource

1 min read

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