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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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Sue Smith

May 23 '19

Helping new coders contribute to Open Source

#opensource #education #github #glitch

7 min read

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May 23 '19

Meet HangHub, a new productivity tool for GitHub

#github #productivity #opensource #c

2 min read

Jozo

May 22 '19

Looking for open source project to contribute

#opensource #git #github #beginners

1 min read

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May 21 '19

10 Things I Have Learned Open Sourcing A React Hook Without Going Crazy

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

5 min read

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Maye Edwin

May 22 '19

Progressive Web Apps In VS Code

#pwa #vscode #web #opensource

3 min read

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Ido Shamun

May 22 '19

Looking for tips before going open source...

#discuss #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

May 21 '19

Animated Typing Utility with JavaScript

#opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

Sm0ke

May 20 '19

JAMstack - Open-Source apps

#serverless #opensource #appseed

1 min read

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May 18 '19

Unform: the definitive form library for React apps

#javascript #react #reactnative #opensource

6 min read

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May 20 '19

Scrollspy, Features, Mouseaway modal | Module Monday 40

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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May 20 '19

Q Vault: An open source secret manager

#opensource #blockchain #security #javascript

1 min read

Radix

May 20 '19

Radix Engine Architecture - Constraint Machine

#blockchain #dlt #opensource #programming

11 min read

JavaScript Joel

May 16 '19

Looking for beta testers for express-easy-routes

#javascript #express #node #opensource

1 min read

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May 14 '19

How to build a Node.js eCommerce website for free

#javascript #node #webdev #opensource

4 min read

May 18 '19

User-test an open source project [My tech writing process: part 1]

#writing #opensource

1 min read

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