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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 Popular Kotlin Server-Side Libraries

Nov 22 '20

Popular Kotlin Server-Side Libraries

#kotlin #codenewbie #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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Ayu Adiati

Nov 21 '20

Contributing To An Open Source by A First-Timer (Part 2)

#opensource #git #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

Cover image for Contributions...!! the developer's thing

Oct 19 '20

Contributions...!! the developer's thing

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Andy Yang

Oct 23 '20

Refactoring code - git rebase

#opensource

1 min read

Ray

Nov 21 '20

Release 0.4 Defined and Colourblindness

#opensource

3 min read

Oct 18 '20

HackToberFest:- Let's Celebrate Open Source together

#hacktoberfest #opensource #python #machinelearning

1 min read

Nov 20 '20

GitHub README for easy to understand code

#github #opensource #csharp

2 min read

Cover image for Hacktoberfest 2020

Oct 18 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

Aman Raj

Oct 18 '20

Hacktober was just the beginning !!!

#hacktoberfest #github #git #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for Fork & Branch Git WorkFlow 🛤️

Nov 18 '20

Fork & Branch Git WorkFlow 🛤️

#beginners #github #git #opensource

3 min read

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Oct 18 '20

HACTOBER FEST 2020

#opensource #github #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Alan Lee

Nov 20 '20

How to Automatically Connect Jira Tickets to Google Sheets with Reshuffle

#opensource #reshuffle #google #jira

4 min read

Cover image for 3 Lessons I Learnt from being a Lazy Programmer

John Johnson Okah

Nov 16 '20

3 Lessons I Learnt from being a Lazy Programmer

#productivity #programming #python #opensource

3 min read

Oct 17 '20

My hacktoberfest 2020 ✨

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for A React library to build Diagrams with ease

Nov 18 '20

A React library to build Diagrams with ease

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Andy Yang

Nov 20 '20

Release 3.1 - telescope

#opensource

2 min read

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Nicolas Hourcard for QuestDB

Nov 19 '20

What is time-series data, and why are we building a time-series database (TSDB)?

#devops #database #opensource #sql

7 min read

Cover image for Manjaro ... You'll definitely love 💙 it !

Chandra Kiran G

Nov 19 '20

Manjaro ... You'll definitely love 💙 it !

#linux #opensource #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

Cover image for How I met Open Source ?

Rishabh Devbanshi

Oct 17 '20

How I met Open Source ?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

Cover image for My Hacktoberfest20 summary

Oct 17 '20

My Hacktoberfest20 summary

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

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Adrian Matei for Codever

Nov 19 '20

How to easily filter bookmarks list with Angular pipes

#showdev #angular #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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Nina Sui

Oct 16 '20

All Things Open 2020 with Microsoft

#events #opensource #azure #cloudskills

3 min read

Cover image for Salesforce Employees Make 178 Open Source Contributions During Hacktoberfest!

Laura Lindeman for Salesforce Engineering

Nov 19 '20

Salesforce Employees Make 178 Open Source Contributions During Hacktoberfest!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie

3 min read

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Lakshya Tyagi for Student Code-in

Nov 19 '20

STUDENT CODE-IN

#opensource #sci #programming

4 min read

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Sm0ke

Nov 15 '20

Django Admin Customization - Black Dashboard

#django #dashboards #opensource #appseed

4 min read

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