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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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Sep 17 '23

Packaging Go for Arch Linux Tutorial

#linux #go #opensource

7 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Sep 15 '23

Process of working in parallel branches in GitHub

#beginners #opensource #cli

2 min read

Mehmet Kırkoca

Sep 17 '23

Open Source Social Media Management

#socialmediamanagement #onlinepresence #opensource #microservices

3 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Sep 6 '23

Moneyball for engineers

#opensource #100daysofoss

4 min read

Niklas for Rig.dev

Sep 12 '23

Our Team's Favourite Open Source Projects Right Now

#discuss #webdev #opensource #startup

6 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Sep 15 '23

My first code contribution

#opensource #beginners #cli

2 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Sep 14 '23

GitHub Markdown Issue Templates

#github #opensource #codenewbie #productivity

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 15 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 59)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #100daysofoss

1 min read

Mostafa Ahangarha

Sep 16 '23

On Turbo Dropping TypeScript

#turbo #dhh #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Sep 16 '23

Announcing Secutils.dev 1.0.0-alpha.2 release

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #microsaas

3 min read

Sep 14 '23

Why you should not use Product Hunt as a developer anymore?

#developers #webdev #opensource #community

3 min read

Katie Liu

Sep 16 '23

First Open Source Collaboration!

#opensource

2 min read

Hannah Aubry for Fastly

Sep 14 '23

I believe we can still save the web 💞

#opensource #community #writing #fastforward

3 min read

Sep 15 '23

My Journey as Project Admin in GSSoC’23

#discuss #opensource #webdev #programming

7 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Sep 16 '23

TIL the builder 🔨

#cli #opensource

2 min read

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