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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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Aug 24 '20

Basic git commands

#git #github #opensource #beginners

2 min read

SubhamChoudhary

Aug 25 '20

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#opensource #react #webdev #python

1 min read

Tristan Pollock

Aug 25 '20

SlackOps: 14 Ideas for Developer Workflows in Slack

#devops #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Orlando Monteverde

Aug 24 '20

API Rest con Go (Golang) y PostgreSQL Parte 5

#opensource #go #api #rest

15 min read

Aug 25 '20

GitHub action to automatically add blog posts to your profile

#github #opensource #devops

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 24 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 32

#aws #opensource

23 min read

Aug 24 '20

Adding Environment Variables To GitHub Actions

#tutorial #github #actions #opensource

3 min read

Aug 24 '20

From "Hello-World" to GSoC

#opensource #java #github #beginners

5 min read

Luis Villa for Tidelift

Aug 24 '20

Ask me your toughest licensing questions for our live AMA this week

#ama #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Aug 24 '20

MLH Fellowship: A Life-Changing Experience

#mlhgrad #opensource

4 min read

David Pine 🤓 for .NET

Aug 24 '20

The .NET Docs Show: Open source .NET projects 👨🏻‍🦲

#dotnet #opensource #dotnetdocsshow

1 min read

Jessie Anh Nguyen

Aug 20 '20

Growing as a developer through the MLH Fellowship

#opensource #reactnative #mlhgrad #github

7 min read

Pavithra Eswaramoorthy

Aug 24 '20

Plain English for Beginners

#writing #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Aug 28 '20

How to Contribute to OSS Projects When You’re Unfamiliar With Their Code

#opensource #contributions #culture #gettingstarted

3 min read

Aug 19 '20

How GitHub Codespaces increase productivity and lower barriers

#showdev #devops #opensource #programming

3 min read

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