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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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Swapnil Agarwal

Sep 26 '18

geeksay - Translate layman text 👶 to its geeky version 🤓!

#javascript #webdev #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Oct 5 '18

Keeping open source projects - awesome-go

#showdev #opensource #go #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Muhammad Osama Arshad

Sep 24 '18

How to install Xi Editor

#opensource

2 min read

Sep 24 '18

Can you help? We need some stars...

#wordpress #opensource #php

1 min read

Homer Chen

Sep 24 '18

GitHub Unfold News

#showdev #opensource #gituhb

1 min read

Ramiro for Auth0

Sep 24 '18

A First Timers Guide to an Open Source Project

#opensource #coding #programming

1 min read

Sep 24 '18

JavaScript Standardization - An Interview with Jory Burson

#javascript #opensource #webdev

7 min read

Joe Hobot

Sep 20 '18

Deploy Kubernetes Cluster in less than 15-20m Almost Prod Ready

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource

2 min read

Sep 17 '18

Module Monday 13: Transparent navbar, Team page, SoundCloud embed & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Khoa Pham

Sep 23 '18

Next to first, next to nothing

#opensource #contribution #credit

2 min read

Rémi Lavedrine

Sep 13 '18

Do you care about your privacy? Maybe it is time to set up your own Dropbox.

#productivity #security #opensource

5 min read

Jia Ming for Uilicious

Sep 21 '18

What I have learnt from a 14 hours project 😼

#opensource #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Anirudh

Sep 18 '18

Let's talk about the new CoC for Linux

#discuss #linux #opensource

1 min read

Lion

Sep 20 '18

Public domain single-header h264/svc encoder

#opensource #c #h264 #svc

1 min read

Donald Fischer for Tidelift

Sep 18 '18

$1m to pay open source maintainers on Tidelift

#opensource #javascript #python #java

3 min read

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