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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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manish srivastava

Sep 3 '20

Create your own tiniest Heroku/CloudFoundry-like PaaS .

#devops #opensource #beginners #linux

1 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Sep 3 '20

GraphQL tools & libraries pt. 2

#graphql #webdev #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Sep 3 '20

Social-AI - Github action automatically add your social icons in README.MD

#showdev #actionshackathon #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Aug 17 '20

How you can stay motivated to work on personal projects

#opensource #career #javascript #motivation

5 min read

Ahmed Gulab Khan

Sep 3 '20

Restaurant reviews app made using Flutter and Firebase

#flutter #flutterdev #opensource #github

2 min read

open devs

Sep 1 '20

fastify typeScript generator: a generator for creating fastify server with typescript

#javascript #fastify #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Sep 3 '20

Changelog CI (Commit and/or Comment Auto-generated Changelog to PR using Actions)

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #python

4 min read

Adyasha Mohanty

Sep 3 '20

My journey to the Open-source world

#opensource #github #gssoc20

3 min read

Amanda Fawcett for Educative

Sep 1 '20

Git and GitHub in a Nutshell: Definitive tutorial for beginners

#git #github #opensource #beginners

11 min read

Sergey Podgorny for Larapulse Technology

Sep 2 '20

Go migrator for MySQL databases

#go #mysql #migrator #opensource

4 min read

Shodipo Ayomide

Sep 2 '20

DevRelChat: The Beginning, My Vision, and an Announcement 🥑

#devrel #podcast #stream #opensource

5 min read

Mustafa AKBEL for Liman

Sep 2 '20

Liman MYS'de Eklenti Geliştirilmesi (Tab'lı Yapı)

#limanmys #linux #opensource #php

2 min read

Prafulla Raichurkar

Sep 2 '20

Working on Github Actions - Update 2 (Beta Release)

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource

1 min read

Peter Kim Frank for The DEV Team

Aug 28 '20

Get in on the action — GitHub Actions Hackathon reminder! ⏰

#actionshackathon #actions #opensource #github

1 min read

Sep 1 '20

🦄🚀 Make Your First Github Contribution.

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #github

2 min read

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