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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 Hands-on IPLD Tutorial in Golang: PART 2

vasa

Jan 16 '20

Hands-on IPLD Tutorial in Golang: PART 2

#ipld #go #ipfs #opensource

5 min read

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Yuelin Wen for Squash.io

Jan 14 '20

16 Amazing Python libraries you should be using now (2020 updated)

#python #productivity #opensource

10 min read

Welly

Jan 15 '20

✨ Introducing react-cool-onclickoutside: A React hook to listen for clicks outside of the component(s)

#react #hook #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Cover image for Fight Validations Spaghetti with Vest.

Jan 15 '20

Fight Validations Spaghetti with Vest.

#validations #opensource #javascript #testing

4 min read

Cover image for Terrier: An Open-Source Tool for Identifying and Analyzing Container and Image Components

Chris for Heroku

Jan 15 '20

Terrier: An Open-Source Tool for Identifying and Analyzing Container and Image Components

#docker #security #opensource

13 min read

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Helad

Jan 15 '20

Open source is free - but expensive

#opensource

6 min read

Cover image for 🔐 Shhh, a web-app to share encrypted secrets using secured links with passphrases and expiration dates.

Matthieu Petiteau

Jan 14 '20

🔐 Shhh, a web-app to share encrypted secrets using secured links with passphrases and expiration dates.

#showdev #opensource #python #security

1 min read

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Travis Fischer for Saasify

Jan 15 '20

Modern web accessibility 💪

#a11y #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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Ryosuke

Jan 14 '20

Documentation for Grommet

#design #react #gatsby #opensource

20 min read

Cover image for Conheça o Parse Server, uma alternativa open-source ao Firebase

Igor Gonçalves

Jan 14 '20

Conheça o Parse Server, uma alternativa open-source ao Firebase

#opensource #frontend #javascript #firebase

2 min read

Ashley Nicolson

Jan 14 '20

Teach more to our students than tech through OS communities

#opensource #beginners #education #community

6 min read

Abhishek Gupta for Microsoft Azure

Jan 14 '20

Tutorial: Integrate Dapr and Azure Event Hubs using Kafka bindings

#showdev #opensource #azure #tutorial

6 min read

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Sm0ke

Jan 7 '20

Django Dashboard

#django #python #opensource #appseed

12 min read

Cover image for Django Dashboard Black - Open-Source Boilerplate Code

Sm0ke

Jan 13 '20

Django Dashboard Black - Open-Source Boilerplate Code

#python #django #opensource #appseed

4 min read

Mathieu Ferment

Jan 14 '20

Introduction to github fork workflow - why is it so complex ?

#github #opensource

7 min read

Patryk Jeziorowski

Jan 13 '20

Contribute to Gatsby & get free SWAG

#opensource #react #javascript #tutorial

3 min read

Cover image for Gitlab VS Github VS BitBucket. Which one deserve your time ? ⌚️👀

Younes

Jan 8 '20

Gitlab VS Github VS BitBucket. Which one deserve your time ? ⌚️👀

#opensource #git #github #gitlab

7 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Feb 20 '20

Microsoft Wants to Stop Supporting Windows 7 Switch to Linux Now

#opensource #howto #linux

3 min read

Cover image for Customized Vulnerability Alerts delivered to your Slack Channel using GitHub Actions

Yash Mehta

Jan 13 '20

Customized Vulnerability Alerts delivered to your Slack Channel using GitHub Actions

#security #devops #github #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Wolff - Ridiculously small PHP framework for building web apps

Alejandro

Jan 13 '20

Wolff - Ridiculously small PHP framework for building web apps

#php #framework #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 11 '20

AWS open source news and updates #1

#aws #opensource

3 min read

Jan 11 '20

Airtable backups made simpler with AWS Lambda & S3!

#airtable #aws #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for How to Deploy your own Container Registry

Mustafa Challawala

Jan 11 '20

How to Deploy your own Container Registry

#docker #kubernetes #devops #opensource

2 min read

Jan 11 '20

Get Out There!

#opensource #ruby #career #github

2 min read

S. Sharma

Jan 5 '20

5 Projects To Do When You're Offline

#opensource #contributorswanted #computerscience #productivity

4 min read

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