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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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Nov 16 '19

How contributing to open-source can improve the way you write code

#opensource #beginners #career #motivation

5 min read

Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Nov 15 '19

A Discussion of Open Source Culture

#discuss #opensource #culture

2 min read

Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Nov 14 '19

Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) Glossary

#opensource

5 min read

Ewerton Jordão

Nov 17 '19

PowerShell Core | Out-GridView Welcome Back

#opensource #powershell #ptbr

2 min read

Nov 17 '19

Hacktoberfest 2019 - completed!

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Enyinnaya

Nov 14 '19

Creating a smart palindrome app

#javascript #beginners #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

neoan

Nov 15 '19

2019 Hacktoberfest t-shirt arrived

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Eddiesegal

Nov 15 '19

7 Open-Source Tools for Securing Your Code

#security #codequality #opensource

4 min read

Nov 6 '19

What are your favorites open-source alternatives?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Nov 15 '19

Choosing an organization for Google Summer Of Code

#gsoc #scraping #opensource

1 min read

Nov 15 '19

Reset or sync local branch to a remote repository

#opensource #git #syncing #beginners

3 min read

Shahjada Talukdar for The Destro Dev Show

Nov 14 '19

GitHub: In Case of Apocalypse, Open This Arctic Code Vault after 1000 years in Svalbard + GH Mobile App

#github #git #opensource #career

1 min read

Abhishek Gupta for Microsoft Azure

Nov 14 '19

Tutorial: Using Azure Event Hubs and Blob Storage with the Dapr framework

#showdev #azure #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Nov 14 '19

The Advantages of Peer Learning

#career #motivation #opensource

5 min read

Caneco

Nov 11 '19

The 30 logos I did for Hacktoberfest

#opensource #hacktoberfest #design

2 min read

Nov 12 '19

I created a fullstack app for pet adoptions, ask me anything, give me more ideas and feedback.

#opensource #reactnative #graphql #react

1 min read

Alex Chaplinsky

Nov 13 '19

Online Security 101 or why you Should use a Password Manager

#security #opensource #javascript #passwordmanager

3 min read

Nov 13 '19

Automating Lead Generation/Email Crawling with python

#python #opensource #productivity

8 min read

MariLuz

Nov 13 '19

Visualizing Hacktoberfest 2018

#hacktoberfest #productivity #github #opensource

2 min read

Marisa Martínez

Nov 13 '19

Generating positive impact as a developer

#positiveimpact #opensource #community #learn

1 min read

Carolyn Stransky for Meeshkan

Nov 11 '19

Setting up the alex.js language linter in your project

#documentation #opensource #tools #tutorial

5 min read

Nov 12 '19

Hacktoberfest completed 🎉🎉🎊🎊!!

#dev #github #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Nov 19 '19

Contributing to Open-source for beginners

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners

3 min read

Nov 11 '19

IDOM - Server Side Rendering in Python

#python #react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Marvin

Nov 11 '19

Command-line arguments: Part 1

#python #tutorial #management #opensource

3 min read

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