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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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Mar 12 '20

Lapin, a terminal game in Rust

#showdev #rust #opensource #terminal

2 min read

Robson Junior for OpenDevUFCG

Mar 12 '20

Bem-vindos e bem-vindas, feras de Computação@UFCG!

#ptbr #opensource

2 min read

Mar 12 '20

Volunteering: giving time, delivering value and building relationships. A long term strategy.

#beginners #career #leadership #opensource

6 min read

Dan Vega

Mar 11 '20

How to create a Pull Request by Submitting your first Pull Request to Github

#github #git #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Mar 11 '20

Value Neutrality and the Ethics of Open Source

#opensource #ethics

5 min read

donnie-jp

Mar 11 '20

Why do we open source our mobile SDKs?

#mobile #sdk #opensource

3 min read

Prashant 🗽 for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Mar 9 '20

Charting the spread of COVID-19 using data

#opensource #database #sql #postgres

12 min read

Rajat Venkatesh

Mar 11 '20

Data Lineage On Redshift

#database #lineage #aws #opensource

3 min read

Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 for .NET

Mar 10 '20

On.NET Episode: Building up open source developer communities in the Dominican Republic

#dotnet #community #opensource #caribbeandevelopers

1 min read

Athul Muralidhar

Mar 10 '20

Antai - Anti AI

#python #machinelearning #opensource #gitlab

2 min read

Mar 6 '20

Which licence do you use for your open source projects?

#discuss #license #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 9 '20

AWS open source news and updates #10

#aws #opensource

8 min read

Aleksey Razbakov

Mar 9 '20

Interactive Budget Planner. Join open source!

#showdev #vue #opensource #discuss

1 min read

Ryan Yost

Mar 8 '20

36 projects starred by top JavaScript developers this week

#javascript #opensource #webdev #npm

6 min read

Mar 8 '20

Introducing, Be Thrifty Today: A Simple & Secure Money Manager (Open Source, Flutter + Firebase)

#flutter #firebase #opensource #android

1 min read

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