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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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Alex (The Engineering Bolt) ⚡

Jan 25 '23

Meta (Facebook): Software Engineer Levels

#vscode #tooling #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dilek Karasoy for Picovoice

Jan 25 '23

Day 18: Hotword detection with Python

#discuss #productivity #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Christine Belzie

Feb 19 '23

How To Make A Pull Request Without Pulling Your Hair Out

#tutorial #github #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Jan 20 '23

Introducing Quine to the Dev.To community

#news #community #startup #opensource

1 min read

Ciro

Jan 24 '23

Anotación @Transient

#gratitude #opensource #learning

1 min read

Jan Schenk (he/him) for Postman

Jan 24 '23

The Progress on Postman's Open Source Program Office (OSPO)

#showdev #opensource #api #postman

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jan 24 '23

😤 Don’t let anyone steal your bike!

#news #opensource #tutorial #luos

1 min read

Scofield Idehen

Jan 24 '23

How To Start Learning Data Analysis, Step By Step Guide

#github #webdev #opensource #productivity

7 min read

Michael Solati for Amplication

Jan 24 '23

Plugging into MongoDB

#database #mongodb #opensource

4 min read

Vitalii Sevastianov

Jan 24 '23

Ghost is an open source (CMS) built on a modern Node.js technology stack

#node #javascript #productivity #opensource

6 min read

Jan 23 '23

You should use the OpenSSF Scorecard

#security #node #opensource

3 min read

MINHCT

Jan 23 '23

Spell Check on Your Linux Terminal

#programming #linux #opensource #computerscience

2 min read

Robert Orliński

Jan 23 '23

How to bypass mobile app review thanks to Capacitor, Ionic, and micro frontends 🤯

#discuss #linux #opensource #productivity

12 min read

Oluwatoyin Ariyo

Jan 23 '23

100 Days of Code: Day 9

#programming #webcomponents #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Federico Navarrete

Jan 23 '23

How to add Google Translate to your website

#opensource #ai #sideprojects #productivity

1 min read

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