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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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Yuelin Wen for Squash.io

Jan 14 '20

16 Amazing Python libraries you should be using now (2020 updated)

#python #productivity #opensource

10 min read

Welly

Jan 15 '20

✨ Introducing react-cool-onclickoutside: A React hook to listen for clicks outside of the component(s)

#react #hook #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Jan 15 '20

Fight Validations Spaghetti with Vest.

#validations #opensource #javascript #testing

4 min read

Chris for Heroku

Jan 15 '20

Terrier: An Open-Source Tool for Identifying and Analyzing Container and Image Components

#docker #security #opensource

13 min read

Matthieu Petiteau

Jan 14 '20

🔐 Shhh, a web-app to share encrypted secrets using secured links with passphrases and expiration dates.

#showdev #opensource #python #security

1 min read

Travis Fischer for Saasify

Jan 15 '20

Modern web accessibility 💪

#a11y #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Ryosuke

Jan 14 '20

Documentation for Grommet

#design #react #gatsby #opensource

20 min read

Igor Gonçalves

Jan 14 '20

Conheça o Parse Server, uma alternativa open-source ao Firebase

#opensource #frontend #javascript #firebase

2 min read

Abhishek Gupta for Microsoft Azure

Jan 14 '20

Tutorial: Integrate Dapr and Azure Event Hubs using Kafka bindings

#showdev #opensource #azure #tutorial

6 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 13 '20

Django Dashboard Black - Open-Source Boilerplate Code

#python #django #opensource #appseed

4 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 7 '20

Django Dashboard

#django #python #opensource #appseed

12 min read

Mathieu Ferment

Jan 14 '20

Introduction to github fork workflow - why is it so complex ?

#github #opensource

7 min read

Younes

Jan 8 '20

Gitlab VS Github VS BitBucket. Which one deserve your time ? ⌚️👀

#opensource #git #github #gitlab

7 min read

Patryk Jeziorowski

Jan 13 '20

Contribute to Gatsby & get free SWAG

#opensource #react #javascript #tutorial

3 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Feb 20 '20

Microsoft Wants to Stop Supporting Windows 7 Switch to Linux Now

#opensource #howto #linux

3 min read

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