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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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Jun 28 '19

Replace Budgie with Deepin on Manjaro

#linux #opensource

3 min read

Stephane Mensah

Jun 28 '19

Introducing Mongoosejs-cli: Generate models, migrations and seeders for mongoosejs right from your terminal

#opensource #mongodb #npm #javascript

1 min read

Andrew Wooldridge

Jun 28 '19

At Campus Movie Fest ... Making a game

#gamedev #devlog #gdevelop #opensource

1 min read

Jun 27 '19

I don't want to see posts like "Which Framework is Winner?"

#javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Christopher Kade

Jun 26 '19

I created a Twitter Thread Generator !

#showdev #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Donald Fischer for Tidelift

Jun 27 '19

What is managed open source?

#news #opensource #technology #programming

3 min read

Jun 26 '19

Fixing Democracy, Developer Style

#opensource #code #law #webscraping

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 25 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource #reporecap

7 min read

Jun 26 '19

🇦🇺🦘 Looking for Events in Australia? 🦘🇦🇺

#irl #meta #eventsinyourcity #opensource

1 min read

Jun 26 '19

listdir vs scandir vs glob - The one and preferably only one obvious way to do it!

#python #opensource

2 min read

johnfound

Jun 26 '19

Contributors wanted for unusual project.

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #frontend

3 min read

Jun 23 '19

Overcoming blocks about contributing to Open Source

#opensource #beginners

7 min read

Jun 24 '19

CSSWand: New Features!

#react #javascript #css #opensource

1 min read

Lukas Lotz

Jun 25 '19

My Personal Kanban - Keep track of your tasks

#tools #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Nadav Goldstein

Jun 24 '19

Rocketsam - a CLI to create and deploy microservices in AWS

#aws #opensource #microservices #javascript

1 min read

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