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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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Shanika Wickramasinghe for Fabric

Mar 29 '21

The Best Open Source E-Commerce Platforms

#opensource #ecommerce

6 min read

Francesca Ansell

Mar 29 '21

Using web components and contributing to open source

#opensource #webcomponents #github #vscode

2 min read

Marvin

Mar 29 '21

ColorDetect: Python Image processing algorithms

#tutorial #python #datascience #opensource

4 min read

Jacob Pattara for Aviyel Inc

Mar 27 '21

Epiphanies and Ideas on Sustainable Open Source @Aviyel 💡🌱

#showdev #opensource #startup #webdev

3 min read

Mar 29 '21

I made 22 Free Icons

#showdev #opensource #webdev #discuss

1 min read

mbnlc

Mar 28 '21

Live Yahoo! Finance stock prices in Python

#python #opensource #datascience #programming

2 min read

Mar 28 '21

Contribute to Open Source

#webdev #opensource #webcomponents #btopro

1 min read

Mar 28 '21

User Accessibility and Developer Experience

#opensource #react #css

3 min read

Pranshul Aggarwal

Mar 27 '21

Getting into Open Source with Flutter

#flutter #opensource #firstpost #beginners

5 min read

Mar 28 '21

Sign-up Form Automation with Python

#python #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Mar 28 '21

Why You Should Start an Open Source Project

#showdev #opensource #development #programming

9 min read

Mar 25 '21

Reactive Button: 3D animated react button component with progress bar

#opensource #github #react #npm

3 min read

Eric Villa

Mar 25 '21

Azure access scenarios, from a DevOps point of view

#azure #devops #security #opensource

10 min read

Mar 25 '21

Made a GitLab code search tool, try it

#showdev #opensource #java #githunt

1 min read

Nedim F

Mar 27 '21

How to contribute to Signal iOS code base

#ios #swift #opensource #signal

4 min read

Mar 26 '21

Learn to Push Your Code To GitHub

#github #opensource #git

3 min read

Mar 27 '21

Hey Sailor

#opensource #javascript #docker #traefik

7 min read

Mar 26 '21

Next.js Markdown Blog Starter Template

#nextjs #markdown #netlify #opensource

1 min read

Mar 25 '21

Building a Cookery Blog with Bulma Clean Theme

#showdev #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mar 25 '21

Assumptions of Linear Regression

#opensource #machinelearning #beginners #datascience

2 min read

Marcos Gomez Vazquez

Mar 25 '21

Implementing a toxicity detector in your chatbots

#chatbots #toxicity #xatkit #opensource

4 min read

Feb 23 '21

Switching to Arch Linux

#linux #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Kaiwalya Koparkar

Mar 24 '21

💻 Hackathons - All you need to know right now! 💻

#todayilearned #discuss #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Mar 21 '21

Contributing to Open Source in Quality Assurance

#opensource #testing #beginners

5 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Mar 21 '21

Python Asterisks

#python #programming #codenewbie #opensource

2 min read

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