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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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Laurie

Apr 3 '20

Documenting a New Feature

#productivity #webdev #career #opensource

4 min read

Apr 7 '20

Dwm: The Suckless Window Manager

#linux #opensource #ubuntu

7 min read

Apr 7 '20

📈 Get Statistics for 🦠 COVID19 Harnessing the Power of ⚛️ React Hooks

#opensource #webdev #codenewbie #react

2 min read

Apr 5 '20

Herbstluftwm: A Dead Simple Window Manager

#linux #opensource #ubuntu

4 min read

Jeff Stern for Tidelift

Apr 6 '20

How open source software is fighting COVID-19

#covid19 #coronavirus #opensource #github

5 min read

Apr 7 '20

Angular Builder to Run source-map-explorer

#opensource #angular

1 min read

Apr 7 '20

How not to make a framework for default request values in Spring

#java #refactorit #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Apr 6 '20

What is suckless all about?

#discuss #linux #opensource

3 min read

Apr 6 '20

Delievery - Deliver (or Send) Anything, Everywhere in your Local Community - Twilio Hackathon

#twiliohackathon #ionic #nestjs #opensource

2 min read

Apr 6 '20

Blog post: Action Packed GitHub Repository

#github #actions #spelling #opensource

9 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 6 '20

AWS open source news and updates - No. 14

#aws #opensource

8 min read

Akshay090

Apr 5 '20

Break the chain: SMS chatbot for awareness in times of COVID-19

#twiliohackathon #opensource #python #flask

3 min read

Erick Garcia Godoy

Mar 30 '20

[PT-BR] O que é o Oh My Zsh e como ele pode melhorar a sua experiência com o Windows Terminal

#linux #windowsterminal #opensource #wsl

10 min read

Apr 1 '20

Celebrating 10,000+ followers 🎉 - Thank you DEV: #AMA 🌼

#ama #watercooler #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Apr 5 '20

Received; Public bucket for receiving files

#twiliohackathon #webdev #opensource #php

3 min read

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