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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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Sep 25 '20

I built a VSCode extension to help you creating Hugo Themes

#showdev #hugo #vscode #opensource

2 min read

dev

Sep 5 '20

Moodle Application : Help

#help #opensource #node #react

1 min read

Nahrin Jalal for Vonage Developers

Sep 28 '20

Vonage Joins Hacktoberfest 2020

#developer #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2020 #opensource

3 min read

Ankush Singh Gandhi

Sep 25 '20

Hacktober Fest 2020

#showdev #hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 25 '20

#100DaysofMLCode Challenge

#100daysofcode #machinelearning #python #opensource

1 min read

John Lafleur for Airbyte

Sep 24 '20

How We Can Commoditize Data Integration Pipelines

#datascience #database #devops #opensource

6 min read

Benny Powers 🇮🇱🦁️

Sep 24 '20

Take GraphQL into Orbit with Apollo Elements 3

#graphql #webcomponents #opensource

1 min read

Sep 25 '20

Objective Code Review

#programming #opensource #codereview #codequality

4 min read

Sep 24 '20

I'm Participating in Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Jon for Slatwall Commerce

Sep 24 '20

Announcing Slatwall Commerce for WordPress

#wordpress #opensource #api #ecommerce

2 min read

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Sep 24 '20

Building Business Opportunities with Distributed Applications

#blockchain #opensource #smartcontracts #distributedsystems

3 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Sep 23 '20

Preptember check-in: more maintainer resources for Hacktoberfest

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

2 min read

Yoginth

Sep 24 '20

Feedback on my new product

#help #webdev #discuss #opensource

1 min read

Sep 23 '20

Beyond Semantic Versioning

#programming #opensource

4 min read

ryo-ma

Sep 21 '20

Update: 🏆 GitHub Profile Trophy / Add dynamically generated GitHub Trophy on your readme

#showdev #opensource #github #typescript

2 min read

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