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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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Apr 8 '21

GitHub Actions Version Updater, Similar to GitHub's Dependabot, but for GitHub Actions

#github #opensource #python #tooling

3 min read

Thomas Bnt

Mar 25 '21

Show me your best Open Source project

#showdev #github #opensource

1 min read

Jon for Slatwall Commerce

Apr 7 '21

Announcing Slatwall Commerce for WordPress New Release v1.1

#wordpress #opensource #api #ecommerce

2 min read

Josh Simmons for Tidelift

Apr 7 '21

Join us June 7-12 for Maintainer Week

#opensource #maintainerweek #github

2 min read

Donald Fischer for Tidelift

Apr 6 '21

Introducing Upstream: A free one-day celebration of open source, the developers who use it, and the maintainers who create it

#news #opensource #development #technology

2 min read

Apr 5 '21

Let's build the best REST API mocker tool together💪

#javascript #opensource #contributorswanted #webdev

1 min read

Apr 5 '21

How to Write a Proper Changelog

#changelog #opensource #markdown

2 min read

Remi W.

Mar 31 '21

🚀 NextJS Landing Page Template Free with Tailwind CSS and TypeScript [Open source] ⚡️

#react #webdev #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Apr 4 '21

Polyglot Programming with MetaCall

#polyglot #programming #metacall #opensource

4 min read

Apr 3 '21

How Do Open Source Companies Make Money?

#opensource

8 min read

Apr 3 '21

This Horrifying Force (The Desire To Merge)

#microservices #opensource

4 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Apr 2 '21

Deploying your code to a cloud server

#webdev #github #opensource

3 min read

Shikhar

Mar 29 '21

Enhance your code reading experience on GitHub

#github #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Christina Gorton

Apr 2 '21

March: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#opensource #meta

2 min read

Shikhar

Apr 1 '21

Published my first browser extension!

#webdev #opensource #javascript #github

3 min read

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