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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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Jeremy Katz for Tidelift

May 26 '20

Spring cleaning: 3 tips for getting your application development house in order

#productivity #technology #motivation #opensource

3 min read

Phil Nash

May 24 '20

An exclusive content Web Component for the Web Monetization API

#gftwhackathon #webdev #webmonetization #opensource

2 min read

Prathamesh Sahasrabhojane ✔️

May 26 '20

GSoC 2020 | Introduction

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Saša Zejnilović

May 26 '20

Github Awesome Lists

#beginners #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 25 '20

AWS open sources new and updates - No. 21

#aws #opensource

12 min read

Biplov

May 21 '20

17 Popular Python Opensource Projects on GitHub

#python #opensource #github

2 min read

May 24 '20

Should you be using Deno instead of Node.js?

#deno #javascript #opensource #node

5 min read

Arek Nawo

May 20 '20

Discussing Microsoft's open-sourcity

#opensource

6 min read

Phil Nash

May 18 '20

Web Components for the Web Monetization API

#gftwhackathon #webdev #webmonetization #opensource

3 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 15 '20

Who wants to improve the "pull-to-refresh" on DEV?

#contributorswanted #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Sachith Fernando

May 22 '20

Contribute to an existing GitHub project 👌

#github #opensource

2 min read

bdn for xz

May 17 '20

new.css - modern websites with only HTML

#css #opensource

1 min read

May 22 '20

Fireact — The open source project to fast track your next web app with Firebase and React

#firebase #react #fireact #opensource

1 min read

May 22 '20

color2k – a tiny color manipulation lib (2.9kB) perfect for CSS-in-JS

#showdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Nizar

May 21 '20

Building an Open Source Realtime Face Recognition Android App

#android #octograd2020 #devgrad2020 #opensource

8 min read

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