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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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Feb 18 '23

Replaying events from SavvyCal into your webhook with Elixir and HTTPoison

#mcp #github #opensource

4 min read

Patrick Canella

Feb 17 '23

Godot 4: "Pointing" an Area2D to the correct direction using look_at!.

#godot #gamedev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Manuel Artero Anguita 🟨

Feb 17 '23

Reminder: Contribute means opening issues and documentation too

#discuss #career #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Feb 27 '23

Implementing the right Email Verification flow

#opensource #security #webdev #programming

6 min read

Ran Isenberg for AWS Community Builders

Feb 17 '23

How One Open-Source Code Donation Got Me Promoted

#aws #opensource #career #github

7 min read

Xiao Ling

Feb 17 '23

How to Build a Web Barcode, QR code and PDF417 Scanner in Flutter

#ios #swift #gamedev #opensource

8 min read

Nicolas Frizzarin for Playful Programming

Feb 16 '23

Make your design compatible with foldable device

#api #opensource #career

6 min read

Memgraph for Memgraph

Feb 16 '23

Introduction to Real-Time Data

#api #opensource #career

6 min read

Johannes Hötter for Kern AI

Feb 16 '23

Why and how we started Kern AI (our seed funding announcement)

#news #nlp #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

Feb 16 '23

Object Oriented Programming

#discuss #api #opensource #contributorswanted

4 min read

Medea

Feb 14 '23

Open source or not?

#help #webdev #opensource #discuss

1 min read

ReLive27

Feb 16 '23

Customize the OAuth2 Authorization Consent Page

#api #developers #opensource #contributorswanted

5 min read

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

Feb 15 '23

🎨 Creating Your First VSCode Extension Theme

#vscode #opensource #theme #themenemo

3 min read

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