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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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Robin Shen

Mar 18 '20

OneDev: An open source all-in-one devops platform

#devops #git #java #opensource

1 min read

Mar 17 '20

Covid-19 Updates via SMS for FREE

#coronavirus #covid19 #opensource #python

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 16 '20

Jitsi: An open source web conferencing solution

#opensource #aws

22 min read

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 for Microsoft Azure

Mar 17 '20

On.NET Episode: Improving accessibility of health insurance in the Dominican Republic

#dotnet #community #opensource #caribbeandevelopers

1 min read

Mar 17 '20

Don't screw up reading Headers, Keep It Simple, Stupid ! HTTP or IMAP !

#python #github #opensource

2 min read

Matteo Bruni for tsParticles

Mar 17 '20

jquery-particles v1.10.3 released

#showdev #javascript #github #opensource

1 min read

Ryan Yost

Mar 17 '20

Projects starred by Dan Abramov in the past year

#opensource #github #webdev #javascript

6 min read

Mar 17 '20

Use this Free Angular Bootstrap Template

#angular #bootstrap #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 16 '20

AWS open source news and updates #11

#opensource #aws

8 min read

Lukasz Gornicki

Mar 16 '20

GitHub Actions - When Fascination Turns Into Disappointment

#github #opensource #beginners #ci

5 min read

Feb 28 '20

A Beginner’s Guide to Contributing to Open Source

#opensource #beginners

5 min read

Petros Demetrakopoulos

Mar 15 '20

COVID-19: An opportunity for the developers’ community and Open Source Software.

#discuss #motivation #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15 '20

Getting started with my #100DaysOfCode Challenge

#100daysofcode #linux #opensource #bash

5 min read

theapache64 for XenoX

Mar 12 '20

AutoMotion: How I Automated My Video Editing Process

#showdev #kotlin #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Matteo Bruni for tsParticles

Mar 15 '20

tsParticles v1.10.2 released

#showdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

1 min read

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