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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 25 '20

Publishing a JavaScript Package to NPM automatically with Github Actions

#javascript #npm #opensource #github

5 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 23 '20

Svelte JS - Open-Source Starters

#svelte #opensource #appseed

4 min read

Mar 24 '20

An unexpected contribution to opensource and how it happened

#github #go #opensource #motivation

5 min read

Eduardo Blancas

Mar 24 '20

Model selection with scikit-learn and ploomber

#machinelearning #datascience #python #opensource

6 min read

Guillaume Martigny

Mar 24 '20

Pencil.js quick-start

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Jon Perl

Mar 23 '20

Set up end-to-end tests in one minute

#testing #javascript #node #opensource

1 min read

Saurabh Daware 🌻

Mar 21 '20

Overcoming the anxiety of creating your first open-source contribution 🦄

#opensource #git #github

4 min read

Ben Greenberg for Vonage Developers

Mar 23 '20

Insights from Incorporating Static Type Checking in Ruby

#ruby #opensource #learning #codequality

8 min read

Aaron Powell for Microsoft Azure

Mar 23 '20

Approval Workflows With GitHub Actions

#devops #tutorial #opensource #github

15 min read

Mar 23 '20

Top 10 Unsplash Alternatives

#productivity #opensource #devtools #writing

1 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 22 '20

Flask Black Dashboard - Free admin panel with Black Design

#flask #dashboards #opensource

5 min read

Mar 23 '20

The ultimate list of developer conferences with CFP

#showdev #opensource #news #career

1 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 20 '20

Tailwind CSS - Open-Source Components

#tailwindcss #opensource #appseed

3 min read

Peter Thaleikis 🍪

Mar 23 '20

Project #6: Mail Merge for Linux Bash

#mailmerge #opensource #sideprojects

3 min read

Carter Harrison

Mar 22 '20

Hardest text file to parse 🚨

#challenge #opensource #go #hard

1 min read

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