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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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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 11 '19

Write You a Haskell

#githunt #opensource #haskell #learning

1 min read

Jan 10 '19

Strategic procrastination and software design

#productivity #opensource #devtips

11 min read

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jan 10 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 12 '19

Plume: Federated Blogs with Rust

#githunt #rust #opensource

1 min read

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Jan 16 '19

How to add pagination in FoalTS

#javascript #node #typescript #opensource

2 min read

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Jan 14 '19

Product page, Bulma message, Password validator & more | Module Monday 25

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Jan 15 '19

IssueHunt Weekly on Jan 7th to 13th 🦉

#showdev #opensource #github

3 min read

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Jan 14 '19

Building Instagram With Flutter

#flutter #opensource #programming #coding

1 min read

Al Chen for Coda

Jan 11 '19

Increasing Productivity By Opening Your Data with APIs

#api #saas #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Jan 7 '19

GitHub Private Repos are Now Free

#news #opensource

1 min read

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Tim Perry

Jan 9 '19

Announcing HTTP View: one-click debugging for HTTP(S)

#showdev #opensource #tools #webdev

2 min read

Jan 13 '19

Offline part 2 - Email and phone

#opensource #wekan #offline

5 min read

Jan 12 '19

Using Plotly to draw charts in React Native

#showdev #reactnative #opensource

2 min read

Felippe Regazio

Jan 9 '19

A complete "Live Reload" feature for PHP projects in a single class

#showdev #php #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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Karolis for Webhook Relay

Jan 10 '19

Fast & simple location tracking with Node-RED and OwnTracks

#opensource #productivity #javascript #beginners

6 min read

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Jan 8 '19

Jekyll to Jigsaw

#blogging #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Jan 10 '19

GitHub Private Repos and their limitations:

#discuss #opensource #meta #github

1 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jan 16 '19

Get Free Unlimited Private Repositories From GitHub

#opensource #fossstories #fossnaijanews

2 min read

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Rob Kendal {{☕}}

May 24 '19

Reading Google Sheets data using JavaScript with Google Sheets Reader

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Jan 6 '19

📣 Use Github for Comments - Forget Disqus

#githunt #opensource #github #blogging

1 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Jan 8 '19

I'm a Google Code-in 2018 Finalist - I Need Help 😓

#help #discuss #askdev #opensource

1 min read

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Arek Nawo

Jan 6 '19

Coding controversy

#javascript #opensource #story #experience

7 min read

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Palash Bauri 👻

Jan 6 '19

Markor : 📘 Write Quickly ✏

#githunt #opensource #android #productivity

1 min read

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Jan 7 '19

Multi-tabs, Flickity gallery, Purchase cards & more | Module Monday 24

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Dec 31 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Dec 31st edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

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