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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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Vasily Pereverzev

Jan 7 '20

How to find a girl or dependency injection pattern in action. Part II

#cpp #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Freek Van der Herten

Jan 2 '20

★ Implementing event sourcing: aggregates

#php #laravel #opensource

3 min read

Freek Van der Herten

Jan 2 '20

★ laravel-medialibrary v7 has been released

#php #laravel #opensource

11 min read

Nick Schwaderer

Jan 2 '20

Dev.to is one of the best open-source Rails apps you can contribute to

#ruby #programming #opensource

1 min read

Trakode

Jan 1 '20

How to create software in 7 easy steps?

#productivity #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Mourad Bougarne

Jan 2 '20

What’s the meaning of contribution to open source projects?

#discuss #opensource #beginners #codenewbie

3 min read

Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Dec 31 '19

Introducing Youtube Detox: Distraction-free Youtube Search

#showdev #opensource #webdev #discuss

3 min read

Saurabh Daware 🌻

Dec 31 '19

My year in review - 2019🌻 || Started Writing Articles, Travelled the country, and Contributing to open-source🎉

#yearinreview #mentalhealth #career #opensource

7 min read

Ivyna Santino for OpenDevUFCG

Dec 31 '19

Retrospectiva OpenDevUFCG 2019 com visualizações analógicas

#ptbr #data #design #opensource

2 min read

JP

Dec 30 '19

I would like to start contributing to Open Source, can you help me to start?

#help #opensource

1 min read

Thomas De Moor for X-Team

Feb 4 '20

An Introduction to JAMstack

#code #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Uzay-G

Dec 29 '19

What I've built and what I've learned in 2019

#webdev #opensource #productivity

5 min read

manish srivastava

Dec 24 '19

Are you tired of Bootstrap? Get started with Metro 4: Free & Opensource

#css #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 20 '19

Dark Admin Dashboard - Open-Source and Free

#dashboards #opensource #appseed

4 min read

Sebastián Ramírez

Dec 23 '19

How to start contributing to open source

#opensource #tutorial

4 min read

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