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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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Apr 29 '19

[UPDATE] Network Upgrade: Rainforest v.2

#blockchain #opensource #microbitcoin #node

1 min read

Mariusz Pilarczyk

May 1 '19

react-keep - tiny library helping with vanishing data

#javascript #react #library #opensource

1 min read

Ken Eucker

Apr 30 '19

My Success in Open Source projects on GitHub

#github #wordpress #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Timur Minulin for Cube

Apr 25 '19

React Native Charts with Cube.js and Victory

#tutorials #javascript #opensource #mobile

5 min read

liajoy

Apr 29 '19

How to extract features from a library

#javascript #node #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Radix

Apr 26 '19

Radix: Preventing Nodes Lying About the Order of Events

#dlt #blockchain #opensource #merkletrees

1 min read

Alican Kılıç

Apr 26 '19

Helpercss

#opensource #css

4 min read

Radix

Apr 25 '19

Radix: Creating Relative Order of Events on the Radix Ledger

#dlt #blockchain #opensource #logicalclocks

1 min read

Apr 25 '19

Rainforest v.2

#blockchain #opensource #microbitcoin #node

1 min read

Joshua Johnson for UA1 Labs

Apr 25 '19

Introduce NoSQL Into Your Legacy LAMP Stack Projects With FireSql

#showdev #php #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Radix

Apr 24 '19

Radix: The Basic Components of the Radix Ledger

#dlt #blockchain #opensource #tempo

1 min read

Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Apr 23 '19

I am now a Google Developers Expert in Web Technologies!

#google #gde #googledevexperts #opensource

4 min read

Apr 10 '19

Huff Post, Konami Code and Pet Photos Makes the News More Palatable

#javascript #konami #opensource #frivolous

3 min read

Henry

Apr 20 '19

Announcing a new podcast: Maintainers Anonymous

#podcast #opensource #maintainers

1 min read

Apr 19 '19

How to turn a bash script into a Mac app

#opensource #tutorial #bash

2 min read

Apr 19 '19

Blazor now in official preview!

#dotnet #csharp #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 21 '19

StormScript: Year in Review

#opensource #cpp #stormscript #linux

3 min read

Apr 17 '19

Adoption of blake2b hashing algorithm

#microbitcoin #blockchain #opensource #cryptocurrency

1 min read

Apr 19 '19

feedback for speedle open source project

#accesscontrol #security #authorization #opensource

1 min read

THO

Apr 15 '19

GitHub - realtho/PartyLoud

#linux #opensource #git #security

1 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Apr 12 '19

Facebook direct links for Firefox is back!

#firefox #facebook #opensource #security

1 min read

Greg Lind

Apr 14 '19

Building Sustainable Open Source Communities

#healthydebate #opensource #career #licenses

5 min read

saif ali

Apr 6 '19

Creating a simple mapper for java

#opensource #java

1 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Apr 8 '19

What is missing in the ClassicPress project that you could contribute to?

#classicpress #opensource

1 min read

Apr 7 '19

use-async-call - A React hook to manage the state and lifecycle of async data loading

#react #reacthooks #opensource

1 min read

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