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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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Patryk Jeziorowski

Jan 13 '20

Contribute to Gatsby & get free SWAG

#opensource #react #javascript #tutorial

3 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Feb 20 '20

Microsoft Wants to Stop Supporting Windows 7 Switch to Linux Now

#opensource #howto #linux

3 min read

Yash Mehta

Jan 13 '20

Customized Vulnerability Alerts delivered to your Slack Channel using GitHub Actions

#security #devops #github #opensource

2 min read

Alejandro

Jan 13 '20

Wolff - Ridiculously small PHP framework for building web apps

#php #framework #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 11 '20

AWS open source news and updates #1

#aws #opensource

3 min read

Jan 11 '20

Get Out There!

#opensource #ruby #career #github

2 min read

Jan 11 '20

Airtable backups made simpler with AWS Lambda & S3!

#airtable #aws #opensource

1 min read

Mustafa Challawala

Jan 11 '20

How to Deploy your own Container Registry

#docker #kubernetes #devops #opensource

2 min read

S. Sharma

Jan 5 '20

5 Projects To Do When You're Offline

#opensource #contributorswanted #computerscience #productivity

4 min read

Faith Mueni Kilonzi

Jan 10 '20

What you need to know about OOP in Python

#python #oop #classes #opensource

2 min read

Bobby

Jan 10 '20

How to install Microweber - the Open Source Drag and Drop Website Builder that is Disrupting the Industry

#opensource #laravel #ubuntu #javascript

4 min read

Karan Shah for SoluteLabs

Dec 31 '19

Will Native Development be dead for good in 2020?

#react #reactnative #flutter #opensource

6 min read

Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Jan 9 '20

Open Source Creator Series, Part 1: Licensing Fundamentals

#opensource #licensing #diy #bootstrap

2 min read

Daniel for Boost Note

Jan 8 '20

A Letter from the Boost Note Team

#showdev #opensource #programming #programmer

4 min read

Helad

Jan 8 '20

WHY WE’VE STARTED XS:CODE

#opensource

4 min read

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