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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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Jun 14 '18

Getting Notifications for New GitHub Project Releases

#development #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Vitaly Kuprenko

Jun 11 '18

Best ideas how to improve a website using open source libraries on Github

#webdev #github #opensource #libraries

5 min read

Alessio Fanelli

Jun 7 '18

nba_rb, a Ruby wrapper for the NBA Stats API

#nba #opensource #ruby #analytics

1 min read

Jun 4 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (June 4 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jun 8 '18

Github Guesser - A Starry Game - Release #2

#showdev #opensource #preact #github

1 min read

Massimo Artizzu

Jun 5 '18

What I think is bad about Microsoft acquiring GitHub

#github #microsoft #opensource

7 min read

Yoshihiro Nakamura

Jun 8 '18

module-analyzr - A simple CLI and toolkit to extract usage of module

#javascript #opensource #node

1 min read

JavaScriptErika

May 29 '18

Deploy a React App as a Github User Page with Yarn

#javascript #opensource #react #beginners

4 min read

May 29 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 29 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jun 5 '18

Open-source loses a friend

#opensource

3 min read

Jun 5 '18

Static - A simple fun website

#opensource #static #website

1 min read

Jun 4 '18

The Microsoft Thing

#github #microsoft #opensource

1 min read

Jun 4 '18

My thoughts on Microsoft acquiring GitHub

#github #microsoft #opensource

2 min read

Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Jun 4 '18

Microsoft GitHub Acquisition: Thoughts of a Full-time Open Source Developer

#microsoft #github #acquisition #opensource

3 min read

Jun 6 '18

How will GitHub change, now that it's owned by Microsoft?

#discuss #github #microsoft #opensource

1 min read

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