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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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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

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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Jun 22 '20

Express-session vs SuperTokens for handling user sessions

#security #opensource #express #javascript

11 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 22 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 25

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Manbir Singh Marwah for GitHub Campus Experts

Jun 19 '20

GitHub Campus Experts: Impacting the Student Developer Ecosystem 🚩

#showdev #github #opensource #devrel

9 min read

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Kévin

Jun 21 '20

Install Apache Spark (and Apache Hadoop) smoothly

#opensource #bash #spark #scala

1 min read

Prathamesh Sahasrabhojane ✔️

Jun 21 '20

Collapsing Message, Responsive Gooey / User Message section, JSON Path Map, Scrollbar and other bug fixes and styling

#github #opensource #react #webdev

1 min read

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Jun 21 '20

What is Readiness & Liveness Probes in Kubernetes?

#devops #kubernetes #opensource #beginners

1 min read

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Jun 20 '20

Do you use gitbook, try this awesome plugin I wrote

#opensource #plugin #documentation

1 min read

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Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Jun 14 '20

Join the triage team

#opensauced #github #opensource

2 min read

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Jun 19 '20

When Is It Time To Kill Your Pet Project?

#javascript #react #life #opensource

5 min read

Benjamin E. Coe for Google Cloud

Jun 18 '20

How my team releases libraries

#javascript #node #opensource

6 min read

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