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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 2020 Survey: Help us understand the impact of the recession on app development with open source (and other timely topics)

Chris Grams for Tidelift

May 28 '20

2020 Survey: Help us understand the impact of the recession on app development with open source (and other timely topics)

#opensource #devops #development #productivity

2 min read

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dBooks

May 27 '20

The 10 Python open access books

#python #books #opensource

4 min read

May 27 '20

Hacking Unicode characters to hide secrets in strings

#javascript #opensource #programming #webdev

1 min read

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May 23 '20

Monetizing Content in View, Paying for what you see

#gftwhackathon #webmonetization #opensource #meta

3 min read

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May 21 '20

Monetize.js: Event-driven library to manage and simulate Web Monetization

#showdev #gftwhackathon #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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Jeremy Katz for Tidelift

May 26 '20

Spring cleaning: 3 tips for getting your application development house in order

#productivity #technology #motivation #opensource

3 min read

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May 25 '20

Video Web Component using Web Monetization API

#gftwhackathon #webmonetization #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Prathamesh Sahasrabhojane ✔️

May 26 '20

GSoC 2020 | Introduction

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Saša Zejnilović

May 26 '20

Github Awesome Lists

#beginners #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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Phil Nash

May 24 '20

An exclusive content Web Component for the Web Monetization API

#gftwhackathon #webdev #webmonetization #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 25 '20

AWS open sources new and updates - No. 21

#aws #opensource

12 min read

Jayesh

May 25 '20

CLOCKS in Linux

#todayilearned #opensource #github #security

1 min read

May 24 '20

Should you be using Deno instead of Node.js?

#deno #javascript #opensource #node

5 min read

Arbuckle

May 25 '20

Open Source Social Networks - a viable option?

#hydejack #opensource #network

8 min read

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May 24 '20

Code Trends 0.0.1

#machinelearning #opensource #react #node

2 min read

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May 24 '20

☸️ Kubernetes Primer Coming Soon...

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #beginners

1 min read

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Phil Nash

May 18 '20

Web Components for the Web Monetization API

#gftwhackathon #webdev #webmonetization #opensource

3 min read

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Sachith Fernando

May 22 '20

Contribute to an existing GitHub project 👌

#github #opensource

2 min read

bdn for xz

May 17 '20

new.css - modern websites with only HTML

#css #opensource

1 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 15 '20

Who wants to improve the "pull-to-refresh" on DEV?

#contributorswanted #opensource #javascript

1 min read

May 22 '20

color2k – a tiny color manipulation lib (2.9kB) perfect for CSS-in-JS

#showdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Nizar

May 21 '20

Building an Open Source Realtime Face Recognition Android App

#android #octograd2020 #devgrad2020 #opensource

8 min read

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Nisar Hassan Naqvi

May 15 '20

Free Open-source portfolio template for developers

#html #css #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

May 18 '20

Software licensing cheat sheet - Part II

#showdev #opensource #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

May 22 '20

Fireact — The open source project to fast track your next web app with Firebase and React

#firebase #react #fireact #opensource

1 min read

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