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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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Nevo David for GitHub 20k

Sep 17

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#discuss #webdev #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Sep 16

Announcing Secutils.dev 1.0.0-alpha.2 release

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #microsaas

3 min read

Sep 17

Packaging Go for Arch Linux Tutorial

#linux #go #opensource

7 min read

Sep 15

My Journey as Project Admin in GSSoC’23

#discuss #opensource #webdev #programming

7 min read

Sep 15

My Journey in XROS Fellowship Summer’23

#showdev #opensource #webdev #xr

10 min read

Allison

Sep 15

Once a Maintainer: Felienne Hermans

#python #beginners #programming #opensource

11 min read

Sep 14

How is it to build something in public?

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #microsaas

2 min read

RoboCoach

Sep 13

ROScribe

#gpt3 #robotics #ai #opensource

2 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Sep 12

FLaNK Stack Weekly for 12 September 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

5 min read

Namatuzio

Sep 15

Code review - a unique way of debugging

#opensource #beginners #testing #python

3 min read

Megabit

Sep 12

Simple and easy-to-use JSON parser in C

#c #programming #json #opensource

3 min read

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Sep 12

Programming Languages as Super Heroes Comics!!

#beginners #programming #python #opensource

2 min read

Sep 12

Detecting changes in JavaScript and CSS isn't an easy task, Part 3

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #microsaas