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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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Cover image for Changelog CI (Commit and/or Comment Auto-generated Changelog to PR using Actions)

Sep 3 '20

Changelog CI (Commit and/or Comment Auto-generated Changelog to PR using Actions)

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #python

4 min read

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Adyasha Mohanty

Sep 3 '20

My journey to the Open-source world

#opensource #github #gssoc20

3 min read

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Amanda Fawcett for Educative

Sep 1 '20

Git and GitHub in a Nutshell: Definitive tutorial for beginners

#git #github #opensource #beginners

11 min read

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Sergey Podgorny for Larapulse Technology

Sep 2 '20

Go migrator for MySQL databases

#go #mysql #migrator #opensource

4 min read

Shodipo Ayomide

Sep 2 '20

DevRelChat: The Beginning, My Vision, and an Announcement 🥑

#devrel #podcast #stream #opensource

5 min read

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Mustafa AKBEL for Liman

Sep 2 '20

Liman MYS'de Eklenti Geliştirilmesi (Tab'lı Yapı)

#limanmys #linux #opensource #php

2 min read

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Prafulla Raichurkar

Sep 2 '20

Working on Github Actions - Update 2 (Beta Release)

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource

1 min read

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Peter Kim Frank for The DEV Team

Aug 28 '20

Get in on the action — GitHub Actions Hackathon reminder! ⏰

#actionshackathon #actions #opensource #github

1 min read

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Sep 1 '20

🦄🚀 Make Your First Github Contribution.

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #github

2 min read

Cameron Miller for Tidelift

Sep 1 '20

World premiere: our new Cooking with Tidelift children’s book

#opensource

4 min read

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Aug 27 '20

Accidental Leadership in Open Source

#opensource #leadership #community #sustainability

10 min read

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Ayush Jain

Aug 30 '20

MLH Fellowship: My story

#opensource #mlhgrad #career

6 min read

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Aayush Agarwal for CimpleC

Sep 1 '20

Getting Started with sim-C

#c #programming #compiler #opensource

2 min read

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Aayush Agarwal for CimpleC

Sep 1 '20

Writing code in C? Simplify your life with sim-C

#c #programming #compiler #opensource

2 min read

Miguel de la Cruz for Mattermost

Sep 1 '20

A complete solution for installing Mattermost: Introducing Mattermost Omnibus

#opensource #mattermost #devops #selfhosted

3 min read

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