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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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Michael Tharrington

Apr 22 '20

Got any tips for folks looking to live Earth consciously?

#watercooler #opensource #discuss #earthday

1 min read

Ravi Yasas

Apr 24 '20

Introduction to Keycloak

#keycloak #authentication #opensource #java

1 min read

Tamimi for Solace Developers

Apr 23 '20

How I built an event-driven NodeJS app on realtime COVID-19 data streams

#covid19 #javascript #opensource #node

6 min read

NAEEM HADIQ for Innovation Incubator

Apr 24 '20

Setting up Mattermost on Ubuntu 18.04

#devtools #opensource #mattermost #saas

4 min read

@lukeocodes 🕹👨‍💻

Apr 23 '20

Guy's Bot - Inclusive Language in Slack

#showdev #node #inclusion #opensource

7 min read

Lucas Santos for Microsoft Azure

Apr 23 '20

Construindo um Backend GraphQL sem uma Linha de Código

#docker #mongodb #graphql #opensource

7 min read

Johannes Millan

Apr 23 '20

Looking for a side project, which you could use yourself every day and which is even useful when working from home?

#help #angular #opensource #productivity

1 min read

May 2 '20

Learning a Foreign Language? Try Letra: A New Tab Extension for Passive Language Learning ☀️

#showdev #vue #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Sm0ke

Apr 20 '20

Flask Dashboard - Simple Open-Source Starters

#flask #dashboards #opensource

5 min read

Apr 22 '20

#WebDev on web.dev - Author Page should have more information about the author #2274

#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Donald Fischer for Tidelift

Apr 21 '20

COVID-19 will accelerate, not delay, tech innovation

#covid19 #opensource #technology #coronavirus

4 min read

Apr 20 '20

Convert Video to text in Ruby

#ruby #webdev #rails #opensource

2 min read

Ignat Korchagin

Apr 18 '20

Using Go as a scripting language in Linux

#go #linux #opensource

7 min read

Apr 20 '20

#WebDev on web.dev - OGP doesn't pickup double quote #2627

#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Apr 20 '20

Blog post: Release 1.19 of Date::Holidays

#perl #opensource #release

1 min read

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