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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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Travis Fischer for Saasify

Nov 8 '19

One SaaS PH Launch a Week...

#opensource #saas #startup

2 min read

Nov 7 '19

Difference Between Var, Let and Const in ES6

#javascript #webdev #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Nov 6 '19

My First Contribution to Firefox

#firefox #opensource #beginners #javascript

5 min read

Jack Harner 🚀

Nov 4 '19

I've Forked The Repo, Now What?

#git #opensource #codenewbie #beginners

2 min read

Olle Pridiuksson

Nov 6 '19

How to open source the company's internal tech

#showdev #webdev #opensource #vue

2 min read

Hoang Le

Nov 6 '19

Top serverless plugins we are using

#serverless #aws #opensource

6 min read

Nov 6 '19

How does open source impact your local community?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Nov 6 '19

Steps for Contributing to Projects on Github

#git #github #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Nov 6 '19

Sero.Mapper presentation

#csharp #opensource #mapper #lightweight

1 min read

SwissGreg

Nov 4 '19

What to do if you haven't got your Hacktoberfest T-Shirt👕 Email yet

#watercooler #hacktoberfest #prize #opensource

1 min read

Kingsley Victor

Nov 5 '19

Who wants to do open source together?

#opensource #javascript #pwa #web

1 min read

Nov 5 '19

ExtendedConsole now available on Nuget

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #console

1 min read

Nov 3 '19

Build a GitHub Stargazer - Get Slack alerts when somebody stars your project in 4 lines of code

#github #opensource #slack #bots

2 min read

Nic

Oct 30 '19

Learn From Source Code

#opensource #firstyearincode #beginners #tutorial

9 min read

Nov 1 '19

Why JAMstack is Becoming so Popular

#javascript #opensource #webdev #vue

2 min read

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