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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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Riley Sage

Jul 27 '23

Filter() method in JavaScript ?

#filter #javascript #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Jenish MS

Jul 28 '23

How to Implement Resumable File Uploads toAzure Blob Storage in Flutter

#flutter #android #ios #opensource

2 min read

Chinwenma Okorie

Jul 28 '23

Conquering Impostor Syndrome in Tech: The Power of Open Source

#100daysofoss #opensource #javascript #collaboration

2 min read

Jul 28 '23

Share how I have operated open source projects and reached 1k star in the past few years

#programming #opensource #programmers #react

11 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Jul 27 '23

Why Developers Should Use Preview Environments

#opensource #devops #cloud #webdev

1 min read

ByoungWook Park for Dogu Technologies

Jul 28 '23

Are you tired of connecting your android device every time? Then build your own DeviceFarm🏭.

#opensource #testing #automation #productivity

2 min read

Jul 27 '23

Playwright HTML Report

#playwright #html #opensource #testing

2 min read

Dash Core Group Devs

Jun 28 '23

Dash Core Group Introduces: GroveDB

#webdev #programming #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Jun 28 '23

Harmonizing Heartbeats: A Journey into Heart Beat Sound Classification

#mboalab #opensource #machinelearning #outreachy

5 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Jul 27 '23

The Magic of Ephemeral Preview Environments

#opensource #devops #webdev #github

8 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 17 '23

The Power of Git: A Guide to Collaborative Version Control

#opensource #git #beginners #codenewbie

7 min read

Daniel Roe

Jul 27 '23

Governance and abuse

#governance #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 25 '23

Open Source ABCs: Android

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

CallmeHongmaybe

Jul 27 '23

I once built a open source project like Google Trends

#showdev #nextjs #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Jul 19 '23

Practical advice for finding GitHub issues to work on

#opensource #github

6 min read

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