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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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Cover image for Finding an organization for google summer of code

Dec 27 '20

Finding an organization for google summer of code

#showdev #opensource #codenewbie #discuss

2 min read

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Dec 21 '20

How to write good documentation

#programming #devtips #opensource

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi

Dec 26 '20

Are you on Github?

#opensource

1 min read

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Nov 25 '20

I made 100 high-quality illustrations, totally free. Use it anywhere without attribution.

#showdev #webdev #opensource #css

1 min read

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Dec 24 '20

Publish My First NPM TypeScript Package

#javascript #npm #opensource #typescript

4 min read

Fleek for Fleek

Dec 23 '20

Why ENS Names are Much More Than Domains

#ens #webdev #opensource #blockchain

5 min read

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Cecelia Martinez

Dec 22 '20

How to make and commit changes in a project from GitHub

#github #git #beginners #opensource

4 min read

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Dec 22 '20

Flutter Starter: Guide to building a Hacker News App

#opensource #flutter #dart

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 21 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.49

#opensource #aws

24 min read

Himadri Ganguly

Dec 21 '20

CKA & CKAD Completed

#opensource #kubernetes #orchestration #devops

2 min read

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Shubhank Saxena

Dec 20 '20

My interview experience@MLH Fellowship

#mlhgrad #opensource #julia #career

3 min read

Nov 17 '20

Week 03 & 04 - Progress Report with Community Bridge

#internships #opensource #cncf #thanos

2 min read

Nov 17 '20

My 2019 in review and Goals for 2020

#developer #opensource #personal #experiences

3 min read

Cover image for A quick introduction to Velero

Dec 21 '20

A quick introduction to Velero

#devops #opensource #kubernetes

2 min read

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻

Dec 20 '20

6 Open Source Tools to create inspiring presentations

#presentation #markdown #opensource #css

3 min read

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Yoginth for Taskord

Dec 21 '20

Taskord Changelog - Dec 21

#showdev #opensource #productivity #changelog

1 min read

tranbathanhtung

Nov 16 '20

Candy: Styling modern apps with Atomic CSS-in-JS focus on constraint-based design principles

#showdev #opensource #javascript #framework

1 min read

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MeStrak

Dec 20 '20

Guidebook: fostering open source in a large corporate environment (part 2 of 2)

#opensource #productivity

7 min read

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Dec 15 '20

My Journey of "Getting out of my Comfort Zone"!

#watercooler #motivation #opensource

4 min read

Alan Lee

Dec 17 '20

Programmatically Remind Your Teammates on Slack to Review GitHub PRs

#opensource #github #slack #reshuffle

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi

Dec 19 '20

Themesberg 2020 Year in Review: over 7500 users, 13 themes launched, investment from Creative Tim, and plans for the future

#opensource

6 min read

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Dec 19 '20

Fire-UI : A User-Friendly and Reliable CSS Framework

#css #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Pranav Karawale

Dec 18 '20

How to keep your Firebase project safe and secure from everyone

#firebase #security #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Dec 13 '20

How consistently does your organization update dependencies?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Nov 15 '20

Finally Completed Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

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