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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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Dec 5 '19

Introducing ProjectLearn.io - Project Based Learning

#webdev #opensource #tutorial #project

1 min read

MC Naveen

Dec 5 '19

Why I Love Docker as a Newbie 🐋

#docker #devops #opensource

2 min read

Rupareliya Manoj

Dec 2 '19

7 Best Ever Open-Source JavaScript Tools for Developers to Use

#javascript #opensource #devops #productivity

5 min read

Sven A for Webiny

Dec 5 '19

Form Builder by Webiny Serverless CMS

#showdev #serverless #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Dec 5 '19

Contribute Beyond Code: Open Source for Everyone

#opensource #devops #community

12 min read

James Crowley for Impact Engineers

Dec 4 '19

Getting started with #techforgood – what I’ve found so far

#techforgood #opensource #motivation #career

6 min read

dAVE Inden

Dec 4 '19

Git Workflow: Should the history of commits show the real time of your work?

#discuss #git #opensource

2 min read

Dec 3 '19

Why and How to contribute to open source???

#git #github #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Carolyn Stransky for Meeshkan

Dec 4 '19

Giving back to the open-source tools we run on

#opensource #gratitude

2 min read

Akash Giri

Dec 3 '19

Master list of free resources (Reddit)

#resources #beginners #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Dec 3 '19

OpenWISP

#opensource #openwisp

2 min read

Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Nov 30 '19

Introducing Nomoogle - Your Very Own Privacy Friendly Bear

#showdev #opensource #webdev #discuss

3 min read

Nicolas Hourcard

Dec 2 '19

QuestDB - fast relational time-series DB, zero GC java

#database #java #opensource #sql

1 min read

giongto35

Dec 1 '19

CloudRetro - Open Source Cloud Gaming Service for Retro Games written in Go

#showdev #go #opensource #githunt

4 min read

Dec 2 '19

A better way to fund OSS

#opensource #javascript #typescript

2 min read

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