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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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Dec 31 '19

Completely Free Open Source Portfolio Every Software Developer Needs to Showcase his Skills

#webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

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Daniel Thompson-Yvetot for Tauri

Jan 6 '20

tauri.studio

#webdev #rust #tauri #opensource

1 min read

Helad

Jan 6 '20

What are you go to badges on your GitHub readme file?

#discuss #opensource #github

1 min read

Jan 4 '20

How to download all your DEV articles in markdown format

#articles #blog #jamstack #opensource

2 min read

Uzay-G

Jan 5 '20

How to sustain yourself with an open-source project?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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SaMauto

Jan 4 '20

Connect to APNS via HTTP/2 with PHP

#ios #php #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Alessandro Pio Ardizio

Jan 3 '20

How to build high available/fault-tolerant services in node.js

#distributedsystems #node #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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Sm0ke

Jan 3 '20

Django Boilerplate - Free Starter with Argon Design coded in Django

#python #django #opensource #appseed

3 min read

Fernando B 🚀

Jan 4 '20

Code-Notes Patch Work

#bug #opensource #javascript

1 min read

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Dzhavat Ushev for RxJS

Jan 3 '20

Getting started with contributing to RxJS docs

#rxjs #beginners #opensource

4 min read

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Jan 4 '20

It’s difficult to live with and without Git — Oh! Shit! Git!

#git #github #opensource

3 min read

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Keff

Jan 4 '20

Open-DAW - Digital Audio Workstation online

#findcollabs #opensource #audio

1 min read

Joris

Jan 3 '20

MonKey, a simple yet powerful API mocking tool

#opensource #api #node

6 min read

norman

Jan 3 '20

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

#showdev #contributorswanted #opensource #github

2 min read

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Huecki

Jan 3 '20

Open source wireframe & mockup | online

#angular #typescript #opensource

1 min read

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Vasily Pereverzev

Jan 7 '20

How to find a girl or dependency injection pattern in action. Part II

#cpp #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Aniruddha Karajgi

Oct 10 '21

A Guide to the Google Summer of Code

#softwaredevelopment #gsoc #google #opensource

7 min read

Freek Van der Herten

Jan 2 '20

★ Implementing event sourcing: aggregates

#php #laravel #opensource

3 min read

Freek Van der Herten

Jan 2 '20

★ laravel-medialibrary v7 has been released

#php #laravel #opensource

11 min read

Nick Schwaderer

Jan 2 '20

Dev.to is one of the best open-source Rails apps you can contribute to

#ruby #programming #opensource

1 min read

Trakode

Jan 1 '20

How to create software in 7 easy steps?

#productivity #opensource #beginners

3 min read

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Mourad Bougarne

Jan 2 '20

What’s the meaning of contribution to open source projects?

#discuss #opensource #beginners #codenewbie

3 min read

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Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Dec 31 '19

Introducing Youtube Detox: Distraction-free Youtube Search

#showdev #opensource #webdev #discuss

3 min read

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Dec 31 '19

My year in review - 2019🌻 || Started Writing Articles, Travelled the country, and Contributing to open-source🎉

#yearinreview #mentalhealth #career #opensource

7 min read

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Ivyna Santino for OpenDevUFCG

Dec 31 '19

Retrospectiva OpenDevUFCG 2019 com visualizações analógicas

#ptbr #data #design #opensource

2 min read

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