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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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Ania Kubow

Jan 27 '20

BUILD NOKIA 3310 SNAKE using JavaScript in under 15 minutes

#javascript #gamedev #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Jan 27 '20

Automagically bookmarking youtube videos for developers

#bookmarks #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mikael

Jan 27 '20

TrackIt - Open Source Lead Management Tool

#opensource #angular #sales

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 25 '20

Adminator - Open-Source Admin Panel coded in two Python flavors

#adminator #opensource #dashboards #appseed

3 min read

Max Ong Zong Bao

Jan 22 '20

My Top 5 Awesome Python Projects

#python #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Aviskar KC

Jan 26 '20

.npmignore: A small step towards unbloating JS

#javascript #npm #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Travis Fischer for Saasify

Jan 26 '20

How interested are you in working remotely?

#saas #api #serverless #opensource

1 min read

Mr F.

Jan 10 '20

Why and how you should migrate from Visual Studio Code to VSCodium

#vscode #productivity #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

vasa

Jan 25 '20

Tutorial: Building a Twitter Bot using IPFS Cluster 🤖

#ipfs #bot #opensource #go

23 min read

jubin jose

Jan 25 '20

Perform Direct and Reverse image search like Google Images with AquilaDB

#machinelearning #opensource #tutorial #database

15 min read

Ali Abbas

Jan 25 '20

🎉 React Native Image Swipe Component🚀

#github #reactnative #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 17 '20

That About Wraps It Up For Actix-Web

#discuss #rust #actix #opensource

1 min read

Diego Martins de Pinho

Jan 24 '20

Carbon — Imagens do seu código com visual incrível

#opensource

3 min read

Daniel Janus for WorksHub

Jan 23 '20

Anyone can contribute to Open Source – find out how

#opensource #contributorswanted #github #workshub

7 min read

Jan 24 '20

Connecting Gridsome to NetlifyCMS - Step by step tutorial

#vue #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

MZ

Jan 24 '20

Creating a stopwatch in Javascript and learning something

#javascript #opensource

2 min read

suvhotta

Jan 24 '20

Python - Object and Variable Difference

#python #beginners #opensource #oop

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jan 18 '20

Free Django Dashboards

#django #python #opensource #appseed

7 min read

Luis Villa

Jan 23 '20

Open source licenses: 2019 year in review

#opensource #yearinreview #legal

12 min read

Jeremy Katz for Tidelift

Jan 23 '20

Why coordinated security vulnerability disclosure policies are important

#opensource #security

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 23 '20

AWS open source news and updates #3

#aws #opensource

6 min read

Shawn Adams for Rockset

Feb 10 '20

RocksDB Is Eating the Database World

#database #opensource #architecture

8 min read

Ben Lovy

Jan 21 '20

Phabricator is Phabulous

#beginners #opensource #productivity #devops

5 min read

Patryk Jeziorowski

Jan 20 '20

React, GraphQL, gRPC and Reactive Microservices - the dataflow in Appwish platform explained

#architecture #opensource #java #webdev

8 min read

Alessandro Pio Ardizio

Jan 22 '20

Nodejs | Thread pool implementations

#node #javascript #opensource #workers

2 min read

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