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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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Mar 29 '20

EXOSTAT: minimal system statusbar

#opensource #minimal #rust #design

3 min read

Petros Demetrakopoulos

Mar 29 '20

SIR.js . An epidemic simulation library in JS.

#javascript #opensource #simulation

2 min read

Mar 28 '20

Portfolio in Reactjs within hour🐱‍💻🕺 using reactjs basic concepts🔥

#react #javascript #opensource #codenewbie

4 min read

Paweł Kowalski for platformOS

Mar 27 '20

Recording Your Terminal to SVG

#beginners #shell #opensource

4 min read

Mar 20 '20

I'm Vivek Saraswat, investor in Dev Tools + Infra startups @ Mayfield and former product leader @ Docker/VMware/AWS. AMA!

#ama #startup #opensource #devops

1 min read

Mar 20 '20

Free GitHub Learning Labs A to Z of Web Development🐱‍🏍

#github #opensource #javascript #free

2 min read

Mar 26 '20

How to host successful Online Hackathons🎉

#hackathon #github #opensource #devrel

4 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Mar 27 '20

GraphQL Mesh

#showdev #graphql #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mar 26 '20

Saasify's Approach to OSS

#opensource #startup #javascript #typescript

4 min read

Davide Santangelo

Mar 26 '20

cURL wrapper around RubyGems.org API

#showdev #opensource #ruby #rails

1 min read

Finch

Mar 26 '20

A Productive Distraction

#opensource #javascript #gamedev #coronavirus

2 min read

Leonora Der for floppylab

Mar 21 '20

We started a new open source project: markdown2document

#opensource #library #project #java

1 min read

Feb 28 '23

I made a developer portfolio template using React and Next

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #career

2 min read

Trev

Mar 29 '20

Jitsi Rocks

#blog #opensource

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 25 '20

Bootstrap Icons vs Font Awesome

#icons #bootstrap #fontawesome #opensource

5 min read

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