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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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Aaron Powell for Microsoft Azure

May 27 '19

Extending Saturn to support Basic Authentication

#showdev #fsharp #webdev #opensource

5 min read

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad

May 25 '19

Are we giving GitHub too much control?

#github #opensource #centralisation #question

1 min read

Shraddha Agrawal

May 25 '19

What, Why and How: Outreachy 101

#outreachy #gsoc #summerofcode #opensource

6 min read

May 25 '19

3 questions I have about developing open source libraries

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

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Chloe Condon 🎀 for Microsoft Azure

May 20 '19

Using The Microsoft Face API to Create Mario Kart Astrology

#beginners #productivity #opensource #azure

10 min read

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Timur Minulin for Cube

May 23 '19

Vue Dashboard Tutorial Using Cube.js

#tutorials #javascript #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Francis Isberto

May 24 '19

Are Apps all Dead?

#discuss #opensource #testing

4 min read

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May 23 '19

Tips For Landing Your First Web Development Job

#webdev #beginners #career #opensource

3 min read

May 22 '19

Fibonacci in Every Language

#challenge #polyglot #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Donald Fischer for Tidelift

May 23 '19

Tidelift partners with GitHub, funds 4,000 open source projects

#news #opensource #technology #programming

3 min read

May 22 '19

Call for JavaScript library: "navigation history"

#contributorswanted #opensource #webdev #javascript

1 min read

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May 24 '19

Build the code, thank the contributors!

#opensource #github #webdev

2 min read

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May 23 '19

Charity is not the Future of Open Source

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

May 23 '19

How To Improve Your Newsletter Subscription Flow (A Little Bit)

#gatsby #idea #opensource #newsletter

1 min read

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Sue Smith

May 23 '19

Helping new coders contribute to Open Source

#opensource #education #github #glitch

7 min read

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