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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 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

Jan 16 '20

Algorithms & Data Structures: Resource Pack

#beginners #computerscience #opensource #programming

1 min read

Henrique

Jan 17 '20

Unity - Easy tweens 🥔

#unity3d #tween #animation #opensource

3 min read

Jan 16 '20

🤖 🚀 ✨ Emojify your conventional commits with Devmoji

#showdev #git #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 17 '20

AWS open source news and updates #2

#aws #opensource #security

5 min read

Jan 16 '20

Tensorflow + Node.js = Magic🎉💥

#node #machinelearning #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Thomas De Moor for X-Team

Feb 13 '20

REST vs GraphQL: The Main Differences

#code #graphql #api #opensource

6 min read

Matthieu Petiteau

Jan 16 '20

🚇 London Tube live status from your terminal 🇬🇧

#showdev #bash #london #opensource

1 min read

E.

Jan 16 '20

Github Education Pack for Students provides about $200k worth of tools and training for free!

#todayilearned #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 14 '20

Django Dashboard Atlantis - Learn by coding simple tasks

#python #django #opensource #appseed

7 min read

vasa

Jan 16 '20

Hands-on IPLD Tutorial in Golang: PART 2

#ipld #go #ipfs #opensource

5 min read

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