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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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Jun 3 '19

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#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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Kyle Boe

May 31 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 31st edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Daniel Shotonwa

Jun 1 '19

An easy approach to contribute to Open Source Projects

#opensource #ruby #rails #programming

2 min read

Jorge Cano

Jun 1 '19

Deberías colaborar en proyectos open source

#community #developer #opensource

2 min read

Mukesh Mithrakumar

Jun 1 '19

Scalars, Vectors, Matrices and Tensors with Tensorflow 2.0

#machinelearning #python #opensource #deeplearning

6 min read

Mohammad Amin Khakzadan

Jun 1 '19

How can I attract a group of developers for open source projects?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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May 31 '19

Image Titler 1.4.1 Features Borders

#showdev #github #python #opensource

3 min read

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ARG

May 31 '19

6 Open-Source Alternatives to Proprietary Software: Self-Hosted Applications

#opensource #webdev

5 min read

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May 31 '19

Dark Theme for Quora - Chrome Extension

#showdev #productivity #quora #opensource

1 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jul 20 '19

Automating Stuffs: Introduction to Linux Shell Scripting

#opensource #howto #linux #ubuntu

3 min read

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lucas kardonski

May 29 '19

Generate serverless HTML forms in an instant

#webdev #opensource #javascript #productivity

3 min read

Aaron Powell for Microsoft Azure

May 29 '19

Home Grown IoT - Prologue

#showdev #fsharp #iot #opensource

4 min read

Liz Lam

May 29 '19

My First 3 Contributions to Open Source

#opensource

3 min read

Adam Reidelbach

May 29 '19

Open Source Git Workflow (an overview)

#git #beginners #opensource

4 min read

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Laura Lindeman for Salesforce Engineering

May 29 '19

6 Ways We Get Things Done with Python

#python #machinelearning #opensource #security

3 min read

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