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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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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

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Aug 23 '20

⚡️Volt - Open Source Bootstrap 5 Admin Dashboard (Vanilla JS)

#showdev #opensource #bootstrap5 #javascript

3 min read

𝓙𝓲𝓶 𝓛𝓲𝓾 for CascadiaJS

Aug 23 '20

#30DaysOfCJS: Creative Coding & Opening Up Open Source

#community #p5js #creative #opensource

1 min read

Loralighte

Aug 19 '20

Linux VS Windows 10 - An Honest Comparison

#windows #linux #opensource

4 min read

Marta83

Aug 23 '20

Add funny comments to your PRs and issues.

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Tony Diaz

Aug 23 '20

"Bye 👋 Felicia" GitHub action

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Thai Pangsakulyanont

Aug 19 '20

Add this `.yml` file to your repo to give it a GitHub Actions-based shell

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Aug 22 '20

mono-.net core integration on Monodevelop

#dotnet #linux #opensource

2 min read

Aug 20 '20

Installing Forem/Dev using Docker on Ubuntu

#selfhosting #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Cass Fultz for Smallstep

Aug 21 '20

If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong | Episode 1: Keys versus Certificates

#devops #security #opensource #sre

5 min read

Cass Fultz for Smallstep

Aug 21 '20

If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong | Episode 3: An ideal SSH flow

#devops #security #opensource #sre

5 min read

Ali Ahsan

Aug 21 '20

A Primer on GitHub Actions

#actionshackathon #opensource #github #blog

4 min read

Aug 21 '20

My MLH Fellowship Experience

#mlhgrad #github #opensource #hardware

4 min read

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