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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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 3 '21

A simple CI/CD system for your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow development workflow

#aws #opensource

15 min read

Feb 1 '21

A playground for JavaScript Keyboard events and the code list

#javascript #productivity #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Feb 3 '21

design-resources-for-developers

#design #github #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Amal Shaji

Feb 3 '21

Fake API - An API to generate fake data

#python #opensource

2 min read

Jan 23 '21

Applying to the MLH Fellowship: Tips & Tricks

#mlhgrad #github #opensource #career

11 min read

Raphaël Pinson for Camptocamp Infrastructure Solutions

Feb 3 '21

Open Source, Standards, and Technical Debt

#devops #agile #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Robby Russell 🐘🚂 for Oh My Zsh

Feb 3 '21

Oh My Zsh: 2020 Year in Review

#zsh #ohmyzsh #opensource #cli

6 min read

Jan 20 '21

16 side project GitHub repositories you may find useful

#javascript #opensource #react #productivity

5 min read

Feb 2 '21

Release 1.51 of perl-workflow

#opensource #perl #release

4 min read

SVS HARSHITH for GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur

Feb 1 '21

How open source changed the world: The 'WORLD WIDE WEB'

#opensource #internet #education

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 1 '21

Interacting with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow via the command line

#aws #opensource

11 min read

Feb 2 '21

Install ClointFusion in Windows Operating System | ClointFusion

#python #automation #opensource #windows

3 min read

Gitlab Meetup Community

Feb 1 '21

Highlights of the Gitlab 13.8

#gitlab #devops #opensource

2 min read

Jan 27 '21

How to make a weather app in React using openweather api

#react #opensource #tutorial #webdev

3 min read

Jan 31 '21

Top 10 tools for the full stack developer

#beginners #opensource #productivity #devjournal

6 min read

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