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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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Manjunath

Feb 27 '19

5 Trends in Software Testing that You Should Know About

#testing #softwaretesting #opensource

6 min read

Feb 22 '19

A Flexible Node Authentication Boilerplate With Email.

#showdev #node #authentication #opensource

2 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Feb 13 '19

Fosdem 2019 – I was there

#mozilla #opensource

1 min read

Feb 19 '19

My First Open Source Project.

#react #opensource #productivity #node

3 min read

Nikita Rousseau

Feb 17 '19

Poll : open-source contributions and motivation factors

#opensource #community #motivation #factors

1 min read

Feb 14 '19

New Release: viabtc v0.4.0

#ruby #opensource #cryptocurrency #rails

2 min read

Sean

Feb 14 '19

Changelog: See Your Tag Moderators

#changelog #meta #opensource

1 min read

Glenn Carremans

Feb 7 '19

My first DEV PR and post!

#meta #opensource #firstpost

1 min read

Dan T.

Feb 5 '19

Threads without efforts in Odi (Node.js)

#typescript #node #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Jan 28 '19

ClassicPress development version on your VVV environment

#classicpress #opensource #php

1 min read

Jan 25 '19

Quick tip: converting Gluon models to symbolic format

#opensource #machinelearning #deeplearning

2 min read

Jan 25 '19

Tascalate Concurrent - Filling the Gaps in CompletableFuture API (Part 1)

#java #opensource #programming #coding

18 min read

Feb 8 '16

6 non-code contributions you can make to open source

#opensource

3 min read

Dane Hillard for ITHAKA

Jan 20 '19

Open sourcing apiron: A Python package for declarative RESTful API interaction

#python #api #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jan 22 '19

Hastatic: A tiny static content web server for Docker

#showdev #opensource #haskell

1 min read

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