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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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Guillaume Martigny

Aug 5 '19

Come code with me ...

#discuss #livecoding #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Santosh Yadav for Playful Programming

Aug 1 '19

My Open Source Journey

#opensource #javascript #angular #ngrx

6 min read

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Aug 1 '19

Learning to code by creating open source documentation: a beneficial synergy

#opensource #tutorial #documentation

9 min read

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Benjamin Petetot for Zenika

Jul 30 '19

Getting started in open source

#opensource #tutorial #beginners

6 min read

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Jul 29 '19

10k+ curated dev bookmarks collection

#dev #resources #programming #opensource

4 min read

Mahesh K

Jul 28 '19

Why Trade Restriction is a good news for Open source?

#discuss #opensource #github

1 min read

Jul 28 '19

What are the most efficient decentralized database solutions?

#discuss #opensource #help #github

1 min read

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JavaScript Room

Jul 22 '19

GitHub Projects or Trello? What is your thing?

#discuss #github #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Vicente G. Reyes

Jul 25 '19

Is contributing to a private repository still considered as contributing to OSS?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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Jul 23 '19

You May Be a Tech Speaker and Not Know It

#opensource #beginners #career #motivation

3 min read

Jul 21 '19

Do you actually want your own open source project?

#opensource

1 min read

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Noorain Panjwani

Sep 24 '19

Time to Step Up Your Microservices

#microservices #functions #opensource #programming

5 min read

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Antonio

Jul 24 '19

Work report. Week 8

#perl6 #opensource #gsoc

3 min read

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lizziekardon for Pagely

Jul 23 '19

Can WordPress Developers and Security Researchers get along?

#wordpress #security #devops #opensource

7 min read

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Artyom Keydunov for Cube

Jul 23 '19

Design Decisions for the First Embedded Analytics Open-Source Framework

#javascript #tutorial #opensource #webdev

8 min read

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