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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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Jan 22 '20

My Portfolio

#javascript #opensource #uiweekly

1 min read

Lena Hall for Microsoft Azure

Jan 21 '20

Applied Cloud Stories

#news #cloud #opensource

3 min read

Ali Abbas

Jan 22 '20

Imgur Upload Image Function ⚡

#github #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Jan 19 '20

Strategies for Using PostgreSQL as a Database for Multi-Tenant Services

#cloudnative #opensource #multitenancy #postgres

5 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Jan 19 '20

I created World's smallest static site genertor in 2 hours.

#python #webdev #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Matheus Gomes 👨‍💻

Jan 21 '20

Git and Github, what's the difference?

#github #git #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Jeremy Morgan for Pluralsight

Jan 18 '20

Trying out the Pinebook Pro - a $200 ARM Laptop

#linux #beginners #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Jan 18 '20

Spend too much time on social media? Try RSS.

#rss #opensource #privacy #data

3 min read

Oscar Barajas Tavares

Jan 20 '20

Contribuir a proyectos Open Source como reto profesional

#spanish #opensource

1 min read

Anower Jahan Shofol

Jan 16 '20

How to use JetBrainsMono in VSCode (New font in the town)

#opensource #vscode

1 min read

Jan 19 '20

Validum, my take on fluent validation using Conditional Types

#showdev #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Ali Abbas

Jan 19 '20

Node-Express⚡REST API for Sending SMS OTP

#javascript #github #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Jan 19 '20

A script to ping the heroku app dyno and prevent it from sleeping

#webdev #bash #opensource #heroku

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 17 '20

Django Framework - Popular extensions, a short-list

#django #python #opensource

5 min read

lechat

Jan 19 '20

I'm a beginner of Rust but making a programming language by rust

#rust #opensource #beginners #language

1 min read

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