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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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Gavin for New Relic

Jul 22 '20

New Relic's instrumentation is now open source

#observability #opensource #opentelemetry #newrelic

2 min read

Jul 20 '20

Your code to the future civilization - GitHub Archival Program

#news #github #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jul 22 '20

Add a rich text editor to your app: react-draft-wysiwyg

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Matheus Cardoso

Jul 21 '20

Streamoji - Custom Emoji Library for iOS UITextView

#ios #beginners #opensource #swift

2 min read

Jul 22 '20

sci-hub.tw wrapper - desearch

#showdev #go #opensource #research

1 min read

Joe Kutner for Heroku

Aug 3 '20

Ground Control to Major TOML: Why Buildpacks Use a Most Peculiar Format

#devops #opensource #buildpacks #cloudnative

3 min read

Saurabh Daware 🌻

Jul 4 '20

A Guide for Contributing to Any Open Source JavaScript Project Ever 💛

#opensource #javascript

6 min read

Jul 22 '20

How to use multiple GitHub accounts on single machine

#github #git #opensource #githunt

1 min read

Benoît Tallandier

Jul 22 '20

Build a strong community 💪

#opensource #community #saas

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jul 20 '20

Bootstrap 5 tutorial: learn how to get started without jQuery

#bootstrap #javascript #tutorial #opensource

14 min read

Nimrod Kramer for daily.dev

Jul 21 '20

How to gain experience as a web developer? Powerful ideas for code newbies

#opensource #webdev #codenewbie #career

5 min read

Natalie A. Wiser for New Relic

Jul 21 '20

New Relic, Programmability and Open Source

#newrelic #opensource #observability #java

5 min read

Valeri Karpov for Tidelift

Jul 21 '20

Tech books vs online documentation: what's the difference?

#mongoose #node #opensource #documentation

4 min read

Jul 21 '20

Awesome github readme templates collection

#showdev #watercooler #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 20 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 29

#opensource #aws

24 min read

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