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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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Feb 4 '20

Comparison of C++ Low-Level Graphics, Cross-Platform Frameworks and Libraries

#cpp #opensource

9 min read

Feb 2 '20

JavaScript Modules Worth Using 🔥

#opensource #npm #node #javascript

10 min read

Narendran

Feb 5 '20

Hitchhikers Guide to flutter from the JS world

#flutter #dart #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Patryk Jeziorowski

Feb 2 '20

OpenID Connect, SPA and backend APIs - Authentication in modern web applications

#showdev #webdev #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Santosh Yadav for Playful Programming

Feb 4 '20

Time For Employers To Change Their Perspective On Open Source Contribution

#discuss #opensource

3 min read

Feb 15 '20

Face enhancer‏ - Denoising Auto Encoder by Tensorflow , Keras and skimage

#deeplearning #python #machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 3 '20

AWS open source news and updates #5

#aws #opensource

6 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Feb 2 '20

Best icon & desktop themes for Linux distros 🤔, share your favs 🤓

#discuss #opensource #linux

1 min read

Kyle Boe

Jan 31 '20

Who's looking for open source contributors? (January 31st edition)

#contributorswanted #opensource

1 min read

Jan 29 '20

Open Up to Open Source Contributing

#beginners #opensource #contributorswanted

4 min read

Feb 1 '20

From 0 to Go, Building a CLI for Postwoman

#showdev #go #opensource #github

3 min read

Jan 31 '20

CliFx - opinionated framework for building CLI applications

#showdev #dotnet #csharp #opensource

12 min read

Jan 30 '20

Learn Git, Github, and Opensource – Course

#opensource #github #git

2 min read

Max Ong Zong Bao

Jan 31 '20

How Should I Apply OpenAPI/Swagger?

#opensource #webdev #beginners

4 min read

Team RudderStack for RudderStack

Jan 30 '20

5 Best Practices for Tracking In-app Event Data

#opensource #android #ios #rudderstack

6 min read

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