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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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Scott

Apr 15 '20

How to Make your First Contribution to Open Source, A Step by Step Guide

#opensource #github #javascript #beginners

4 min read

Orlando Monteverde

Apr 14 '20

API Rest con Go (Golang) y PostgreSQL Parte 1

#go #rest #api #opensource

8 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Apr 14 '20

Webcomponent 🔥 based PLAYER for the PODCAST Community 😎

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Andrea Giacobino for Ape Unit

Apr 14 '20

GitHub is now free for teams 🤔

#github #opinion #microsoft #opensource

2 min read

JeffD

Apr 14 '20

Better applications with Unix Philosophy

#webdev #opensource #linux #programming

4 min read

Apr 14 '20

Learn How You Can Take Advantage of the Appwrite API Without Using Any SDK

#ios #android #serverless #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 13 '20

AWS open source news and updates - No. 15

#aws #opensource

7 min read

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻

Apr 13 '20

How to automatically update your Slack status when you join a Zoom meeting

#opensource

3 min read

Apr 8 '20

Are you using JWTs for user sessions in the correct way?

#webdev #javascript #authentication #opensource

13 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Apr 12 '20

A Brand New 🔥 AUDIO PLAYER plugin for the commuity 😎

#webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Apr 13 '20

Learn to contribute to Open Source Software

#opensource #webdev #career

1 min read

Apr 11 '20

Awesome: A Versatile Window Manager

#linux #opensource #ubuntu

6 min read

Sai Sandeep Vaddi

Apr 11 '20

How does monetization of opensource app works?

#discuss #opensource #help

1 min read

Soatok Dreamseeker

Apr 13 '20

FAQ Off: An Open Source Project to Defeat Harassment Mobs and Anti-Intellectualism

#showdev #opensource #php

3 min read

Oleksii Trekhleb

Mar 23 '20

📈 I've open-sourced a simple Coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard (React + Chart.js + BootstrapTable)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #dataviz

2 min read

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