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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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Ali Abbas

Feb 7 '20

Awesome GSOC Resources 🏆

#github #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Feb 5 '20

Amazing Nuget Libraries for C# Development

#csharp #opensource #azure #architecture

1 min read

Feb 6 '20

How to become a powerful open source hero

#career #mentalhealth #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Katarina Harbuzava for Flatlogic

Jan 31 '20

Best React Open-Source Projects

#webdev #frontend #react #opensource

12 min read

Amir Rustamzadeh for Cypress

Feb 6 '20

Introducing Firefox and Edge Support in Cypress 4.0

#testing #e2e #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Astrit

Feb 7 '20

Yin and yang - Pure CSS, transparent, single element icon

#css #webdev #html #opensource

2 min read

Feb 6 '20

Kubernetes and Istio service mesh workshop materials

#showdev #beginners #opensource #kubernetes

2 min read

Feb 5 '20

How I hacked my cats with an Arduino

#arduino #iot #robotics #opensource

2 min read

Deepjyoti Barman

Feb 6 '20

4 lesser known free comment hosting services better than Disqus

#comment #opensource #free #commenthosting

1 min read

Abhishek Gupta for ITNEXT

Feb 6 '20

Building Cloud native apps: Intro to Open Application Model and Rudr

#kubernetes #microservices #opensource

5 min read

Feb 5 '20

Regula: Validate Terraform for Policy Compliance with Open Policy Agent

#terraform #aws #security #opensource

8 min read

Rachel-Lee Nabors

Feb 5 '20

React Native documentation drive

#reactnative #react #opensource

1 min read

Didicodes

Feb 5 '20

Open Source Contributions: A catalyst for growth.

#opensource #education #beginners

7 min read

Feb 4 '20

Comparison of C++ Low-Level Graphics, Cross-Platform Frameworks and Libraries

#cpp #opensource

9 min read

Feb 2 '20

JavaScript Modules Worth Using 🔥

#opensource #npm #node #javascript

10 min read

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