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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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May 13 '20

Build a dashboard without a single line of code

#javascript #node #opensource #ibmcloud

5 min read

Johannes Millan

May 13 '20

Alternative Backend Approaches

#webdev #opensource #node

3 min read

Peter Kim Frank for The DEV Team

May 4 '20

DEV is participating in the MLH Fellowship, Powered by GitHub

#news #meta #opensource #github

2 min read

Yash

May 14 '20

5 Tools Every Open Source Software Must Use.

#github #git #opensource

3 min read

systemd

May 14 '20

Best hosting provider for open source and FOSS projects

#free #hosting #opensource

1 min read

Tamb

May 11 '20

Bootstrap Native. Bootstrap WITHOUT jQuery Today

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

1 min read

May 13 '20

Using open-source issues to learn a new programming language 💡

#opensource #github #beginners #programming

5 min read

May 12 '20

Accessibility (or the lack of) broke my code

#a11y #webdev #opensource

2 min read

May 13 '20

Privacy friendly and open source Google Analytics alternative

#privacy #webdev #opensource #startup

2 min read

Orlando Monteverde

May 13 '20

API Rest con Go (Golang) y PostgreSQL Parte 2

#go #rest #opensource

9 min read

May 11 '20

Announcing react-monetize ⚛️

#webmonetization #gftwhackathon #react #opensource

1 min read

Donald Fischer for Tidelift

May 12 '20

In a recession, who’s looking out for the open source maintainers?

#news #opensource #technology #programming

5 min read

Coenen Benjamin

May 11 '20

What I learned contributing to Rust-Analyzer

#rust #opensource #compiler #vscode

9 min read

May 12 '20

Bibi, what's down the rabbit hole 🐰

#gftwhackathon #opensource #webmonetization

3 min read

May 12 '20

OAuth 2.0 vs Session Management

#opensource #webdev #authentication #oauth

6 min read

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