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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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Pranith Hengavalli

Oct 10 '18

Designing A Voting System For 1 Billion on the Blockchain (Part 1)

#discuss #blockchain #opensource #architecture

6 min read

Oct 13 '18

My 16 Months at Red Hat

#opensource #github #java #linux

3 min read

saltphish

Oct 13 '18

Mentorship for OpenSource projects

#opensource #mentors #mentee

1 min read

Geshan Manandhar

Oct 13 '18

Why use docker? 3 reasons from a development perspective

#docker #productivity #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Geshan Manandhar

Oct 13 '18

3 simple rules for less or no git conflicts

#git #coding #opensource #tips

3 min read

rhymes

Oct 9 '18

Come with me on a journey through this website's source code by way of a bug

#webdev #rails #opensource

17 min read

Oct 8 '18

Project Management Lifecycles for Personal Projects

#discuss #devops #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Mohamed Khaled Yousef

Oct 9 '18

Dev-Connections open source project

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 8 '18

↪️ Refactor for Hacktober ↩️

#hacktoberfest #refactor #codeclimate #opensource

1 min read

Kurt Bauer

Oct 7 '18

Tim Berners-Lee, Solid, and the arrival of the Web 3.0

#news #opensource #blockchain #dapps

5 min read

Oct 10 '18

Offline is the new normal

#opensource #wekan #offline

1 min read

Geshan Manandhar

Oct 11 '18

Don't just learn a new language/framework, implement it as a running open source project

#webdev #beginners #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Oct 11 '18

MySQL Editor in NodeJS ~ Part Four

#mysql #node #learning #opensource

2 min read

Yohei Seki

Oct 9 '18

KurumiPy: A memoization tool that accelerates Python processing

#kurumipy #python #memoization #opensource

4 min read

Oct 8 '18

Hello world :D, I need more practice for competitive programming skills, any suggestions?

#discuss #opensource #frontend #backend

1 min read

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