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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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David Berlin for Stackbit

Jun 17 '19

Migrating From Medium - A Developer's Guide

#opensource #projectbenatar #medium #rss

4 min read

Jun 20 '19

When is the right time to fork?

#opensource

1 min read

Ido Shamun

Jun 18 '19

What makes an open source project awesome?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jun 17 '19

Creating a covert channel over the Telegram

#showdev #security #telegram #opensource

7 min read

Jun 14 '19

Use the Source Luke! How to Write Clean Code for Interviews

#opensource #beginners #computerscience

2 min read

Corey McCormick for Simple Software

Jun 16 '19

Thank Your Favorite Projects

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

kbrock84

Jun 14 '19

GitHub Driven Debugging

#github #debugging #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Kai Oswald

Jun 12 '19

Easily create 2-state, SVG-powered transitions with vue

#showdev #vue #opensource

1 min read

Daybrush (Younkue Choi)

Jun 12 '19

Introducing Scene.js Library to Create Timeline-Based Animation

#react #css #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jun 11 '19

Chocolatey, package management for Windows

#discuss #chocolatey #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jun 8 '19

Powerfull Github stargazers information gathering tool

#github #opensource #python

1 min read

Jun 8 '19

Fastest Image scanner using openCV

#opensource #python

1 min read

roookeee

Jun 7 '19

abandon your factories - data conversion with datus

#java #functional #opensource

3 min read

innoraft12

Jun 3 '19

TB Megamenu Implementation with Bean Module (Part 1)

#discuss #webdev #devops #opensource

2 min read

Yavuz

Jun 4 '19

Fixing Open Source Sustainability Through Tech Recruiting

#opensource #career

1 min read

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