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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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Christian Heilmann

Jul 12 '19

A worrying change in Open Source perception

#opensource #community #empathy #codequality

7 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Oct 3 '19

How to Install Geany IDE on Linux

#howto #linux #opensource #ubuntu

3 min read

Jul 15 '19

Hover animate, Masonry mover, Side switch | Module Monday 47

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Jul 15 '19

Open Source? What's that?!!

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #sideprojects

5 min read

Jul 15 '19

A Python CLI Tool to Help Diff Web Framework Versions

#opensource #python #video #webdev

3 min read

Jul 13 '19

How I manage my dev bookmarks to save time and nerves

#productivity #programming #developer #opensource

3 min read

Jul 13 '19

Side Projects - The Starting Line

#sideprojects #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jul 12 '19

Improving your Open Source experience

#opensource

8 min read

Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Jun 30 '19

Introducing ProGram: An Open-Source, Self-Hosted Instagram

#showdev #opensource

5 min read

Jul 11 '19

5 Vue tips for React developers

#javascript #beginners #career #opensource

8 min read

Juha-Matti Santala

Jul 9 '19

My first npm package: ptcgo-parser

#npm #library #learning #opensource

3 min read

Nik Poltoratsky

Jul 10 '19

How to deal with GitHub spambots

#github #opensource #security

3 min read

Joel Hans

Jul 10 '19

How to inspire exceptional contributions to your open-source project

#opensource #contributions

11 min read

Jul 10 '19

The best way to securely manage user sessions

#webdev #javascript #authentication #opensource

6 min read

Francesco Leardini

Jul 10 '19

🎉 The state of CSS in 2019 🎉

#css #opensource #design #sotwsurvey

1 min read

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