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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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Sep 17 '18

How do you contribute to opensource on GitHub ?

#discuss #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 15 '18

Confessions of an Open Source contributor

#opensource #wekan #kanban #javascript

1 min read

Sep 9 '18

How do you commit in GitHub ?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Aug 22 '18

Best Open Source Tools For Developers 🛠

#productivity #tools #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Sep 12 '18

How do you feel about changing naming terms?

#discuss #opensource #python

1 min read

Sep 10 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (September 10 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Sep 8 '18

Is Go an Object Oriented language?

#showdev #go #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Shan Khan

Sep 15 '18

Help Build Code Settings Sync Better

#help #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

Sep 10 '18

Module Monday 12: Horizontal timeline, Bulletin board, Quotation B & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Sep 11 '18

I have been banned from Lobste.rs, ask me anything.

#ama #security #opensource #javascript

6 min read

Yegor Voronianskii

Sep 15 '18

Where I am can find a reviewers?

#java #opensource #work #developer

1 min read

Sep 6 '18

Speed Up Your Web Development: Sass

#webdev #productivity #css #opensource

4 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Sep 13 '18

10 Trending PHP Repositories on GitHub this week

#php #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Sep 12 '18

Jelly Fin: Contributor Update 9-12-2018

#jellyfin #opensource #react #reactnative

2 min read

Sep 10 '18

MySQL Editor in NodeJS ~ Part one

#mysql #node #learning #opensource

5 min read

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