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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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Jay Gordon for Microsoft Azure

May 14 '20

Open Sourcing Your Creativity

#opensource #music #musing #beginners

6 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

May 5 '20

Announcing: The Twilio Hackathon Winners!

#showdev #twiliohackathon #opensource

2 min read

May 10 '20

How to Use OBS Studio to Record or Stream Live Presentations

#beginners #tutorial #streaming #opensource

8 min read

May 16 '20

Building a COVID19 Dashboard using Node.js

#node #tutorial #opensource #octograd2020

5 min read

Alex Gurr

May 17 '20

React Drive - An all-in-one react wrapper around Google's drive file picker. Supports direct downloads & blob exports.

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

May 14 '20

Getting Started with Predator - ruthless API performance testing

#testing #performancetesting #opensource #docker

6 min read

May 11 '20

Sebastian McKenzie, creator of Babel, is leaving Facebook

#news #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Patryk Rzucidło

May 16 '20

all-shields-cli

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

3 min read

Lasse Schultebraucks

May 13 '20

German Corona warning app GitHub repo got published

#discuss #corona #covid #opensource

1 min read

May 11 '20

Curated presets & box-shadow editor for devs & designers

#showdev #css #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Antonio Di Motta

May 16 '20

entity2sql

#dotnet #sql #opensource

2 min read

May 12 '20

react-monetize beta is available now 💸

#gftwhackathon #webmonetization #react #opensource

1 min read

Dmitriy A.

May 15 '20

Open source crisis

#watercooler #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Vesi Staneva for SashiDo.io

May 15 '20

Top 10 Мobile UI Libraries in GitHub

#codenewbie #beginners #opensource #uiweekly

3 min read

May 10 '20

Learn how to build a fast & responsive markdown editor with React, Firebase, & SWR

#webdev #react #opensource

15 min read

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