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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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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Jun 15 '20

Hats off to the Class of 2020!

#octograd2020 #devgrad2020 #meta #opensource

2 min read

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krisss

Jun 26 '20

Most Cool 25 Flutter App Templates, Examples | 2020

#design #opensource #flutterapptemplatege #fluttertemplate

21 min read

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Jun 24 '20

5 tips for getting involved in open-source projects on GitHub

#opensource #github #webdev #contributorswanted

5 min read

Jun 24 '20

Announcing JSON {BIN} IT! service to store your JSON files

#showdev #opensource #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Jun 24 '20

5 Reasons Why You Should Consider Presenting at Flink Forward Global Virtual 2020

#opensource #bigdata #apacheflink #flinkforward

3 min read

Stephen Senkomago Musoke

Jun 23 '20

Voices of the Elephant Podcast Episode - My Technology Journey, PHP, Opensource, Java

#php #opensource #java

1 min read

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Swayam Samyak Debasis

Jun 22 '20

Introduction to Deno

#deno #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Jun 23 '20

Best React JS Covid19 Tracker ever!

#react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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0xkniraj

Jun 23 '20

GSoC 20: Week 3

#python #gsoc #opensource

2 min read

Developer Nation Survey

Jun 23 '20

📚 Resource Packed Newsletter!

#resources #newsletter #opensource #machinelearning

8 min read

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Jun 18 '20

Visualizing React state flow and component hierarchy

#webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Jun 18 '20

Update — Grant For The Web Winners to be announced Thursday, June 25

#gftwhackathon #webmonetization #opensource #meta

1 min read

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jubin jose

Jun 23 '20

Achieve safe AI through incentivized emergence

#machinelearning #blockchain #computerscience #opensource

1 min read

Jacob Mer.

Jun 22 '20

Taskban, a free and open source personal productivity application

#csharp #architecture #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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Jun 22 '20

Angular Tree Table

#angular #javascript #opensource #html

3 min read

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