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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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Nicolò Marchesi

Jun 30 '21

Road to Noovolari

#showdev #devjournal #startup #opensource

10 min read

Jun 30 '21

Flutter Plugin For Importing Stickers Into Telegram

#flutter #telegram #opensource

3 min read

Nikema for Armory

Jun 29 '21

Nikema’s Spinnaker Summit 2021 Recap

#spinnaker #cdcon #community #opensource

3 min read

Jun 29 '21

Cohorts and customisation

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #privacy

1 min read

Jun 29 '21

Why Python?

#python #programming #community #opensource

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 28 '21

AWS open source news/updates #74

#opensource #aws

11 min read

Gautham Prakash

Jun 29 '21

My 3 year Linux anniversary

#linux #opensource #computerscience #webdev

2 min read

Johannes Millan

Jun 28 '21

Super Productivity v7 is out!

#productivity #opensource

1 min read

manish srivastava

Jun 28 '21

PRESENTING HABIT-O-CIRCLE APP: CODED BY CODE GENERATOR: THAT WAS CODED BY ME!

#watercooler #php #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Michael R.

Jun 28 '21

mdEditor (for VSCode)

#news #markdown #opensource #showdev

4 min read

Jun 28 '21

A Look at End-to-end Testing in Nightwatch v2.0

#opensource #javascript

5 min read

Jun 24 '21

Top 10 Useful GitHub Browser Extensions

#github #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jun 27 '21

Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)

#opensource #java #contributorswanted #testing

2 min read

Supritha

Jun 8 '21

How to have an awesome GitHub profile ?

#github #markdown #opensource #git

5 min read

Jun 25 '21

🌎 What is a REST API ? 10 best practices when building a REST API

#opensource #api #tutorial #rest

1 min read

Jun 25 '21

Tab Porter - Export/Reopen all the Google Chrome tabs at any time or any system.

#showdev #productivity #opensource #programming

2 min read

Hillary Nyakundi

Jun 25 '21

QR Code Generator using Python

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Teo

Jun 25 '21

Moldy mi nuevo proyecto

#help #opensource #spanish #go

1 min read

Benny Powers 🇮🇱🇨🇦

Jun 20 '21

What's NOT new in React 18

#react #webcomponents #opensource #opinion

4 min read

Jonathan Ellis for DataStax, an IBM company

Jun 24 '21

Apache Cassandra 4.0: Taming Tail Latencies with Java 16 ZGC

#java #database #programming #opensource

6 min read

Jun 20 '21

Your first ruby gem 💎

#ruby #rails #gem #opensource

11 min read

kodumbeats for Appwrite

Jun 23 '21

Appwrite Loves Open Source: Why I Chose To Support Lazygit & Lazydocker

#opensource #appwrite #docker #lazydocker

3 min read

Mangabo Kolawole

Jun 23 '21

The ultimate Open source alternative to manage customer engagement- Chatwoot is here! 💬

#chatwoot #opensource

2 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Jun 22 '21

Nobody needs your library

#watercooler #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jun 21 '21

Automating WhatsApp web with alright

#showdev #python #opensource #programming

6 min read

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