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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.

submission guidelines

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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Saravanan

Feb 16 '23

String Methods

#opensource #contributorswanted #community

3 min read

Adrian Castilla

Feb 15 '23

Power up your apps, use URLSession to use APIs in Swift

#showdev #opensource

6 min read

Alvin James Bellero

Feb 15 '23

🎨 Creating Your First VSCode Extension Theme

#vscode #opensource #theme #themenemo

3 min read

Feb 15 '23

Top 4 ASP.NET and .NET Open-Source Projects

#opensource #dotnet #github #beginners

5 min read

Feb 15 '23

The nopCommerce eCommerce platform: brief of architecture and MVC pattern

#webdev #dotnet #architecture #opensource

9 min read

cn-2k

Feb 14 '23

How to set default route in Vue.js with Vue Router!

#discuss #ai #privacy #opensource

1 min read

Iniubong LA for Medusa

Feb 14 '23

12 Tips for Optimal Ecommerce SEO

#opensource #webdev #javascript #programming

9 min read

abdelino17

Feb 14 '23

Unleashing the Power of LocalStack for Faster AWS Development

#privacy #opensource #selfhost

5 min read

Feb 14 '23

Constructor in Solidity

#discuss #linux #cli #opensource

3 min read

Rasheed K Mozaffar

Feb 14 '23

C# Q&A : Part 2

#discuss #privacy #opensource #ai

4 min read

Feb 6 '23

Step up Your VSCode Game With These 10 Must-Have Extensions

#devto #announcement #opensource #community

5 min read

Md Mohaymenul Islam (Noyon)

Feb 14 '23

Introduction to Python's Multiprocessing Module

#discuss #opensource #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Shan

Feb 13 '23

A step-by-step guide on how to set up TypeScript in your project

#opensource #automation #backenddevelopment #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Jakub Andrzejewski

Feb 13 '23

My experiences with Ambassador programs

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

2 min read

Feb 13 '23

What I learned about leading a healthy project from speaking to 50+ maintainers

#opensource #contributorswanted #fosdem #community

13 min read

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