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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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mfkl

Oct 26 '20

On the psychology and dynamics of OSS: passion, burnout and (im)balance

#opensource #sustainability #software #psychology

6 min read

Ray

Oct 26 '20

Lab 05, or how to refactor code

#opensource

4 min read

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Oct 26 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #java

1 min read

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Oct 25 '20

Hacktoberfest and Me.

#hacktoberfest #javascript #opensource #github

1 min read

OpenTeams

Sep 21 '20

Podcast Launch: Open Source For Business. Learn from the world's #1 OSS experts within enterprises!

#techtalks #opensource #podcast

1 min read

Oct 25 '20

First Hacktoberfest Experience

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #pushercontest

1 min read

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Oryam

Oct 25 '20

My First Hacktobetfest Experience🎸 (2020)

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 26 '20

Open-Source Working with Others

#opensource

1 min read

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Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 21 '20

To be successful as a developer, you need be consistent

#opensource #github #vue

4 min read

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Oct 5 '20

Deep learning live coding Wednesday

#hacktoberfest #opensource #pytorch #python

1 min read

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Oct 21 '20

Working in Public: how can we solve the problems of open source?

#books #opensource

5 min read

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Oct 25 '20

Creating a scatter matrix of Instagram data using Python

#python #datascience #webscraping #opensource

3 min read

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Oct 24 '20

Hacktoberfest2020 🎉✨wrapup and few key🔑 points🎯 to note

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #computerscience

2 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Oct 24 '20

🚀 Live on Buy Me a Coffee. Any tips?

#opensource #webdev

1 min read

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Johannes Lichtenberger

Oct 13 '20

Contributors wanted: Practice your Svelte and TypeScript skills 👩‍💻👨‍💻

#contributorswanted #opensource #webdev #svelte

2 min read

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Oct 24 '20

The Open Core Business Model

#opensource #business #opencore

2 min read

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Bharath Muppa for Entangled Cognition

Oct 24 '20

What is Open power Architecture?

#opensource #architecture #ibm #computerscience

4 min read

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Yashithi Dharmawimala for Mozilla Club of UCSC

Oct 24 '20

UCSC Undergrads are Escaping the Loop!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #ucschf2020

2 min read

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Oct 24 '20

📬 Apache Kafka Commands

#kafka #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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Deepak Raj

Oct 23 '20

Convert your Pdf in cool AudioBook with 3 lines of python code

#python #opensource #hacktoberfest #github

1 min read

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Oct 23 '20

Create Github Social Preview Images in a few clicks

#opensource #github #developertools

1 min read

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Ashraf Alam for EISK

Sep 20 '20

New StackOverflow Tag for EISK!

#news #opensource #aspnet #dotnet

1 min read

Oct 23 '20

FREE hosting for your open source project

#opensource #hosting #cloud

1 min read

Oct 24 '20

Git Rebase

#opensource #csharp #github #git

2 min read

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Srushtika Neelakantam for Ably

Oct 23 '20

A scalable, realtime quiz framework to build EdTech apps

#javascript #vue #node #opensource

7 min read

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