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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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Abhishek Gupta for Microsoft Azure

Feb 20 '20

Using Kafka with Dapr on Kubernetes

#azure #opensource #kubernetes #kafka

1 min read

Florin Pop

Feb 11 '20

80+ Application Ideas for Developers

#opensource #codenewbie #git #productivity

1 min read

Prosper Otemuyiwa

Feb 3 '20

What Are You Asking For?

#devrel #opensource #motivation

7 min read

Feb 20 '20

New Challenge 👌 : #40DaysInspration

#webdev #opensource #design #css

2 min read

Erik "Noaa" Engervall

Feb 20 '20

Entering open-source software

#npm #git #opensource #javascript

5 min read

Feb 19 '20

I should have made this product - Git Command Explorer

#git #webdev #codenewbie #opensource

1 min read

Laurie

Feb 11 '20

The ECMAScript Ecosystem

#webdev #javascript #learning #opensource

5 min read

Saqib Ameen for daily.dev

Feb 19 '20

🎉 Introducing Vim Key Bindings in Daily

#webdev #product #vim #opensource

2 min read

Roelof Jan Elsinga

Feb 19 '20

Aloia CMS: Version 1.0.0 has released!

#showdev #opensource #php #laravel

3 min read

i. welch canavan

Feb 19 '20

I published my first Ember Addon

#javascript #ember #opensource

3 min read

Wes Souza

Feb 18 '20

Writing Good Pull Requests: A Primer

#opensource #productivity #github #git

5 min read

Shahjada Talukdar

Feb 17 '20

Celebrating 10K+ Followers 🎉🙌 Thank you DEV and everyone! 👋

#webdev #tutorial #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mike Solomon for Meeshkan

Feb 18 '20

Introducing HTTP types

#javascript #python #api #opensource

2 min read

Shi Han

Feb 18 '20

tfvar - A tool to help you write Terraform's variable definitions

#showdev #productivity #opensource #devops

3 min read

Feb 16 '20

Inside the git folder

#git #opensource #productivity #beginners

5 min read

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