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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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Swapnil Agarwal

Sep 5 '18

🐬 Swag for Dev #4 — DigitalOcean’s Sammy stickers!

#programming #beginners #opensource #tips

1 min read

Greg Lind

Sep 6 '18

The Problem with Community Editions and Open Source Licenses

#healthydebate #opensource #career #licenses

1 min read

Ramiro for Auth0

Sep 6 '18

Laravel 5.7 Release: What's New? 10 Features To Try

#laravel #php #coding #opensource

1 min read

Sep 2 '18

GoLang School IS LIVE

#showdev #go #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Stanislav(Stas) Katkov

Sep 3 '18

Phoenix reborn - open source crypto-exchange Peatio

#opensource #crypto #exchange #ruby

5 min read

Oleksii Trekhleb

Aug 29 '18

New Playground and Cheatsheet for Learning Python

#python #opensource #programming #webdev

5 min read

Doni

Aug 27 '18

How do you make your portfolio/GitHub profile standout?

#discuss #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Aug 8 '18

dev.to is now open source

#meta #opensource

4 min read

Aug 30 '18

Best Open Source Menubar Apps You Must Have 🤨

#productivity #macos #opensource #tools

2 min read

Aug 28 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (August 28 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

uetchy

Sep 2 '18

Comparing OSS on GitHub

#showdev #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 3 '18

Looking to Partner With Open-source Maintainers

#help #opensource #entrepreneurship

1 min read

Aug 29 '18

Jelly Fin: Looking For Contributors

#help #jellyfin #opensource #contributors

1 min read

Michael Scott Hertzberg

Aug 24 '18

Demystifying `devDependencies` and `dependencies`

#webdev #opensource #npm #node

1 min read

Aug 26 '18

Four Key Elements of a Healthy Framework Ecosystem

#opensource #frameworks

1 min read

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