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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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Sachith Fernando

May 22 '20

Contribute to an existing GitHub project 👌

#github #opensource

2 min read

bdn for xz

May 17 '20

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#css #opensource

1 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 15 '20

Who wants to improve the "pull-to-refresh" on DEV?

#contributorswanted #opensource #javascript

1 min read

May 22 '20

color2k – a tiny color manipulation lib (2.9kB) perfect for CSS-in-JS

#showdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Nizar

May 21 '20

Building an Open Source Realtime Face Recognition Android App

#android #octograd2020 #devgrad2020 #opensource

8 min read

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Nisar Hassan Naqvi

May 15 '20

Free Open-source portfolio template for developers

#html #css #javascript #opensource

1 min read

May 22 '20

Fireact — The open source project to fast track your next web app with Firebase and React

#firebase #react #fireact #opensource

1 min read

Team RudderStack for RudderStack

May 22 '20

The Tale of Identity Graph and Identity Resolution

#opensource #android #ios #rudderstack

7 min read

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Arek Nawo

May 20 '20

Discussing Microsoft's open-sourcity

#opensource

6 min read

Loralighte

May 18 '20

Why Fragmentation Should EMPOWER Linux

#opensource #linux #distributedsystems

4 min read

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Michael Friedrich

May 21 '20

GitLab CI/CD pipelines and container registry for ARM Cortex firmware builds

#opensource #cicd #gitlab #development

4 min read

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Max Kolyubyakin

Jun 1 '20

Powerful filtering for Django Rest Framework

#python #django #api #opensource

9 min read

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May 21 '20

Monsterwm: 700 lines of pure beast

#linux #opensource #ubuntu

7 min read

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react-monetize submition 💸

#webmonetization #react #opensource

2 min read

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May 21 '20

Manipulating Arrays in JavaScript

#javascript #codenewbie #beginners #opensource

4 min read

May 20 '20

Open Sourcing the People's Code

#devgrad2020 #octograd2020 #opensource

3 min read

May 20 '20

Introducing Appwrite 0.6 with Flutter Support

#flutter #opensource #javascript #webdev

2 min read

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Sule-Balogun Olanrewaju

May 20 '20

A Beginner’s Guide to Making Open Source Contribution

#webdev #opensource #womenintech #100daysofcode

4 min read

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May 20 '20

IQUIZZLER

#flutter #webdev #android #opensource

2 min read

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Orlando Monteverde

May 20 '20

API Rest con Go (Golang) y PostgreSQL Parte 3

#go #rest #opensource

11 min read

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Aju Tamang

May 20 '20

Kickstart to First Semester CS Project

#django #react #opensource #cs

1 min read

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Darsh Shah

May 20 '20

Graduation Day 🎓

#github #octograd2020 #opensource

2 min read

Animesh Srivastava

May 20 '20

An Open Source 3-D Scanner

#python #opensource #computerscience #cpp

3 min read

Ahmed Mohamed Abd El Ftah

May 19 '20

How To Choose Open Source Package

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #git

3 min read

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10+ Free and Open-Source Ghost Themes for 2020(Nodejs)

#javascript #node #opensource #themes

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