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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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Ana Vela

Nov 17 '20

What I Learned from Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie #webdev

3 min read

Subhampreet Mohanty 👨‍💻

Nov 17 '20

Everything you need to know before you Open Source 🚀

#opensource #github #beginners #webdev

6 min read

Ray

Nov 18 '20

Release 0.3 part 1, more Discord!

#opensource

3 min read

Nov 17 '20

Outreachy Internship with Mozilla 🦊

#outreachy #opensource #mozilla #internships

2 min read

Nov 7 '20

Start With Telescope

#opensource #csharp #dotnet #linux

2 min read

Nov 17 '20

How to restore local branch in GitHub?

#opensource #github #git

1 min read

Nov 17 '20

Everybody Struggles

#opensource #internships #mozilla #outreachy

2 min read

Andy Yang

Oct 19 '20

Release 0.2

#opensource

1 min read

Nov 17 '20

What is Linux and why you should learn it?

#linux #opensource

3 min read

Nov 17 '20

Simplest opensource js paint

#opensource #npm #javascript

1 min read

Ane for xLayers

Nov 6 '20

xLayers #sketchnote

#webdev #javascript #design #opensource

1 min read

F.R Michel

Nov 16 '20

Use symfony/messenger without supervisor

#php #laravel #opensource #symfony

1 min read

F.R Michel

Nov 14 '20

PHP - Create a simple session wrapper class

#php #laravel #codequality #opensource

1 min read

Rishi R

Nov 17 '20

What is the Google Summer of Code (GSoC)?

#gsoc #programming #opensource #google

2 min read

Aditi Sneh

Nov 17 '20

Guide me in Opensource

#help #github #opensource #explainlikeimfive

1 min read

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Nov 16 '20

The Python Community is Stronger Together

#pythonfunbites #azure #python #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 16 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.44

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Smruti Ranjan Sahoo

Nov 15 '20

How to Contribute to Open Source Project

#opensource #github #firstpost

3 min read

Fridolín Pokorný

Nov 16 '20

How to beat Python’s pip: Software stack resolution pipelines

#python #datascience #opensource #machinelearning

6 min read

Nov 16 '20

Gustavo looks through a Telescope

#opensource #python

2 min read

Odysseas Lamtzidis for Netdata

Nov 16 '20

Introduction to community repository: Consul, Ansible, ML

#opensource #monitoring #machinelearning #devops

4 min read

Myrsini Koukiasa (she/her) for Vonage Developers

Nov 19 '20

Meet The First Voyagers Crew (Part 3)

#showdev #community #opensource #vonagevoyagers

3 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Nov 16 '20

Open Source & GDP

#opensource #github #python #javascript

1 min read

Nov 16 '20

Static Analysis Tools + FireLinker

#opensource

2 min read

Nov 16 '20

Code Analyzer for C#

#csharp #opensource #dotnet

2 min read

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