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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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Kai Oswald

Jun 12 '19

Easily create 2-state, SVG-powered transitions with vue

#showdev #vue #opensource

1 min read

Daybrush (Younkue Choi)

Jun 12 '19

Introducing Scene.js Library to Create Timeline-Based Animation

#react #css #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jun 11 '19

Chocolatey, package management for Windows

#discuss #chocolatey #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jun 8 '19

Fastest Image scanner using openCV

#opensource #python

1 min read

Jun 8 '19

Powerfull Github stargazers information gathering tool

#github #opensource #python

1 min read

roookeee

Jun 7 '19

abandon your factories - data conversion with datus

#java #functional #opensource

3 min read

innoraft12

Jun 3 '19

TB Megamenu Implementation with Bean Module (Part 1)

#discuss #webdev #devops #opensource

2 min read

Alexander Uchitel

Jun 4 '19

Every Android developer needs this library

#android #eventbus #opensource #github

1 min read

Yavuz

Jun 4 '19

Fixing Open Source Sustainability Through Tech Recruiting

#opensource #career

1 min read

Soumya Roy

May 28 '19

11 Top Open-Source Tools for Web and Android Developers in 2019

#opensource #androidtools #webdev #developertools

8 min read

Jun 1 '19

I’m joining Microsoft

#opensource #microsoft #cloud #angular

2 min read

Rafael E. Poveda

Jun 2 '19

Contributing to open source...

#react #opensource

4 min read

Alex Radu

May 25 '19

GitHub Satellite 2019- my highlights

#github #opensource #berlin

6 min read

May 31 '19

Make it Rain Event has now ended

#microbitcoin #opensource #blockchain #community

1 min read

May 29 '19

Quiz Application for Web Developers

#showdev #opensource #beginners #webdev

2 min read

innoraft12

May 30 '19

Why should Drupal be your first choice of open source CMS?

#drupal #webdev #opensource #security

1 min read

May 30 '19

2nd Day Make it Rain event is over!

#microbitcoin #opensource #community #blockchain

1 min read

Mohammad Amin Khakzadan

May 29 '19

I need your feedback about a new programming language idea to improve its design.

#discuss #opensource #scriptinglanguage

3 min read

Stafford Williams

May 27 '19

Docker containers aren't just for long running tasks

#showdev #docker #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mikoyoarts

May 24 '19

Getting Started with PHP for WEB

#php #beginners #webdev #opensource

2 min read

May 28 '19

Learning a New and Unfamiliar Code Base

#beginners #opensource #video #webdev

3 min read

Kmaschta

May 28 '19

Releasing Comfygure 1.0

#showdev #devops #webdev #opensource

5 min read

May 28 '19

MicroBitcoin’s 1st anniversary is coming up on 5/30!

#microbitcoin #opensource #blockchain #community

1 min read

Jim Buck

May 28 '19

Contributing to OSS: Getting Started

#opensource

5 min read

Victor Bjelkholm

May 23 '19

The Need For Open Source Infrastructure To Be Open

#github #opensource #infrastructure

2 min read

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