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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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Michelle Duke for GitHub

Jan 8 '21

Updates to GitHub Markdown - Making it easier for you to build amazing things

#github #opensource

2 min read

Peter Thaleikis 🍪

Jan 9 '21

What license to use for private NPM/node or composer packages

#opensource

1 min read

Jan 9 '21

12 Useful OpenShift Commands You Should Know

#devops #kubernetes #opensource #cloud

2 min read

Jan 9 '21

So it goes: instascrape v2.0.0 is in the works

#opensource #python #datascience #contributorswanted

2 min read

Jan 8 '21

How to convert videos without uploading or downloading anything (on your browser)

#webassembly #video #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Kay

Jan 9 '21

Hactoberfest 2020 Swag Arrived

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

Supabase for Supabase

Jan 3 '21

Supabase: ten months of building.

#postgres #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 29 '20

React Dashboard - Modern UI Kits for 2021

#react #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Dec 29 '20

Why one should Contribute to Opensource Project

#django #github #python #opensource

1 min read

Jan 8 '21

Hactoberfest 2020 Swags Received

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

Sune Monrad for IT Minds

Jan 8 '21

Sharing knowledge with the principles of open source

#git #opensource #knowledgesharing

6 min read

Burak Gür

Jan 4 '21

Create ToDo App With Vue 3 Composition API

#vue #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Pasquale Ragozzino

Jan 8 '21

Go dockerization

#go #devops #docker #opensource

1 min read

Supriya Shashivasan

Jan 8 '21

Article Planner template: Notion

#showdev #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Jim Galasyn for Confluent

Jan 8 '21

How to Run Apache Kafka on Windows

#apachekafka #opensource #linux #windows

11 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Jan 7 '21

What obstacles are you facing with your Open Source project? 🥵

#discuss #opensource #npm #github

1 min read

Jan 7 '21

Privacy cookies

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Ryo Ota

Dec 17 '20

The Power of Pure HTTP – screen share, real-time messaging, SSH and VNC

#javascript #webdev #linux #opensource

14 min read

Jan 6 '21

Fix the previous mistake

#javascript #opensource #github

2 min read

Phan Hieu Nguyen

Dec 8 '20

Release CLI tool Python package

#opensource #python

2 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Jan 5 '21

What stinks about programming? 😖

#discuss #programming #opensource #codenewbie

1 min read

Serokell

Jan 6 '21

16 Awesome Elixir Open-Source Projects

#elixir #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Jan 6 '21

What Motivates a Developer to Contribute to Opensource Software?

#github #opensource #django #python

1 min read

Jan 6 '21

Leveraging Flutter Starter to build a Weather App

#opensource #flutter #dart

3 min read

Kooin-Shin

Jan 6 '21

Introduce Open-Source project TCPProxy.

#proxy #java #opensource

1 min read

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