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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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Alexander Clemens

Aug 18 '23

💡 Discover Your Life Goals and Make Your First Open Source Contribution with Before I Die Code 🚀

#beginners #opensource #react #tutorial

10 min read

Aug 19 '23

Security configuration management for software engineers

#buildinpublic #opensource #security #microsaas

5 min read

Python Trending Weekly

Aug 19 '23

Python 潮流周刊#16：优雅重要么？如何写出 Pythonic 的代码？

#python #webdev #opensource #ai

3 min read

Jessica Temporal

Aug 30 '23

Renomeando arquivos no Git do jeito certo

#git #opensource #braziliandevs

2 min read

Aug 19 '23

Altcode-Qrrate: Hack for Unlimited Cloud Storage using YouTube!

#webdev #node #opensource #lol

3 min read

Ayu Adiati

Aug 18 '23

#100DaysOfOSS Recap: Day 15-27

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #webdev

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 14 '23

What Does an Open Source Triage Team Do?

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie #github

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 17 '23

Open Source ABCs: Hacking

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Aug 19 '23

Connecting to Github with SSH (Windows)

#github #tutorial #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Aug 18 '23

Learn how to install Qwik with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#qwik #flowbite #tailwindcss #opensource

22 min read

Aug 6 '23

Beautify Your Git Log with a Single Command

#git #opensource #programming #beginners

1 min read

Unni P

Aug 17 '23

Infisical - Open Source SecretOps - Kubernetes Setup

#infisical #kubernetes #opensource #secretops

7 min read

Aug 17 '23

Does a one-man project need a formal project management process?

#buildinpublic #opensource #security #microsaas

5 min read

Aug 17 '23

MLH Fellowship - My Experience

#mlhgrad #interview #opensource #programming

6 min read

Aug 17 '23

Boost your Git Squash-Rebase Workflow with these Commands! (auto-squash, auto-commit, auto-rebase, auto-push)

#showdev #git #productivity #opensource

5 min read

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