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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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nikhiltyagi04 for TestMu AI

Feb 7 '19

Feature Detection With Modernizr For Cross Browser Compatibility

#css #webdev #javascript #opensource

10 min read

Feb 4 '19

Team carousel, Ripple on click, Customer social proof & more | Module Monday 27

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Feb 6 '19

Raven Reader RSS Reader app

#showdev #opensource #vue #electronjs

1 min read

Karolis for Webhook Relay

Feb 1 '19

What's your favourite CI/CD tool and why?

#discuss #opensource #devops

2 min read

Tierney Cyren for Microsoft Azure

Jan 28 '19

Start Contributing to Node.js in the New Year

#node #javascript #beginners #opensource

8 min read

Marco Castignoli

Feb 5 '19

Nile - a decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused online shopping platform.

#ipfs #opensource #javascript #webdev

5 min read

Feb 5 '19

Bagisto v0.1.4 Major Release Announced

#laravel #opensource #ecommerce #webdev

2 min read

Muhammad

Feb 4 '19

Exploring Git

#git #opensource

3 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Feb 5 '19

Vue.js Projects for Bounty Hunters

#showdev #vue #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Josh Dzielak 🔆

Feb 4 '19

What are developer community projects?

#showdev #opensource #devrel #community

9 min read

Feb 4 '19

How blockchain achieves immutability?

#opensource #go #blockchain

1 min read

Gabe

Feb 2 '19

A brief introduction to tiny CMS

#beginners #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Sebastiaan Deckers for Commons Host

Feb 3 '19

Bulldohzer 🚜 DNS & DoH performance testing

#showdev #opensource #dns #webperf

2 min read

Feb 1 '19

Learn blockchain with Web3Coach

#webdev #career #opensource #blockchain

1 min read

Feb 1 '19

Securing IoT devices connections with blockchain: does it make sense?

#discuss #blockchain #security #opensource

2 min read

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