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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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DEITY

Mar 11 '19

DEITY Falcon Launch - An Open Source Progressive Web App Front-end

#pwa #react #node #opensource

7 min read

Bryan Hughes for Microsoft Azure

Mar 7 '19

twitter-replies-parser - A Tool for Converting Twitter Replies into JSON

#javascript #node #twitter #opensource

2 min read

Havoc Pennington for Tidelift

Mar 8 '19

Open source has a working-for-free problem

#opensource #career #npm #startup

10 min read

Mar 8 '19

Using Custom SNMP MIBs with Cacti

#opensource #cacti #snmp #admin

4 min read

Wenchen (Neo) Li

Mar 8 '19

Microsoft open-sources its Windows calculator on GitHub

#githunt #cpp #opensource #github

1 min read

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Mar 8 '19

Edit your file hierarchy with Broot 0.7

#rust #cli #linux #opensource

1 min read

Mar 7 '19

Dev.to API library for .NET 🚀

#showdev #dotnet #opensource

1 min read

Mar 6 '19

Opensource Android Code Snippets in Java

#opensource #android #coding #java

1 min read

Mar 6 '19

Top 5 Open Source eCommerce Frameworks (2025 Update)

#opensource #ecommerce #platforms #framework

3 min read

Mar 4 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (March 4th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

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Mar 6 '19

Invented here syndrome

#programming #productivity #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Mar 7 '19

How to Contribute: Ember Times

#webdev #opensource #documentation

6 min read

David Ryan

Mar 20 '19

This is what happened to open source in 2018 (and beyond)

#opensource #community #technologytrends

12 min read

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Erik Booij

Mar 5 '19

Lazily loading template data in PHP with Twig and Shoot

#webdev #tutorial #php #opensource

6 min read

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Feb 28 '19

Showcase your Gatsby Site

#gatsby #opensource #typescript #jamstack

1 min read

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Mar 1 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

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Mar 4 '19

Split testing, Image hue change, Popup form & more | Module Monday 30

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Mar 3 '19

Ride Receipts - Download your Uber and Lyft receipts automatically

#showdev #productivity #launch #opensource

1 min read

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Fran Méndez 🍺

Mar 14 '19

Status update (week 11, 2019)

#asyncapi #solace #opensource #microservices

2 min read

Feb 21 '19

Git Gud at git

#showdev #git #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Scott Watermasysk

Mar 4 '19

🆕 Jekyll Rest

#ruby #jekyll #opensource

1 min read

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Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Feb 14 '19

🎁💝DevTo CLI💝🎁: A Valentine's Day Gift To My Favorite People

#showdev #meta #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 23 '19

Android App for All Web Developers

#opensource #webdevelopers

1 min read

Feb 28 '19

How to start contributing in open source project

#opensource #php #phake #hamcrest

2 min read

Feb 19 '19

The biggest mistake library and framework maintainers make

#react #webdev #opensource #opinion

1 min read

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