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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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Feb 10 '18

Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver

#opensource #education #educationtechnology #mathematics

11 min read

Bimochan Shrestha

Dec 30 '19

HacktOverFest

#hacktoberfest #stickers #opensource #macos

1 min read

Dec 29 '19

5 invaluable learning methods for programmers 👩‍💻

#learning #onlinecourses #opensource #blogging

6 min read

Ryan

Dec 24 '19

The Colorful Julia Twitter Bot

#showdev #python #opensource

1 min read

Ayushnita

Dec 17 '19

Flask Project Creator (fpc)

#flask #beginners #opensource #python

1 min read

Mark Lambe

Dec 23 '19

Find out your Mac's average daily usage!

#opensource #javascript #python

1 min read

Adron Hall

Dec 21 '19

Career Update: Back to Engineering!

#news #career #opensource #cloud

2 min read

Jan 1 '17

Conduct Deeper Evaluations Before Taking on New Software Dependencies

#opensource #dependencies

3 min read

Matanya

Dec 15 '19

Why I started using dual-licensing for Vue tables 2

#vue #opensource

2 min read

Dec 17 '19

Vue GridMultiSelect Tutorial and Quick Guide

#webdev #javascript #vue #opensource

4 min read

Jexia

Dec 13 '19

3 best-read blogs in Up & Running Weekly #50

#kubernetes #docker #opensource #devops

1 min read

Dec 15 '19

npm: More Secure Canary Publishing

#devops #opensource #git #github

2 min read

Dec 12 '19

Announcing “auto” 8.0.0

#devops #github #opensource #git

3 min read

Dec 6 '19

Introducing Vue GridMultiselect - Simple Multi-Select Component With Items Displayed in a Table Like UI

#vue #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Richard Ng

Nov 29 '19

Redux command actions that scale without boilerplate

#redux #javascript #react #opensource

7 min read

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