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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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Gabrielle Niamat

Jan 8 '23

MLH Fellowship: My Admissions Timeline & Program Experience!

#mlhgrad #opensource #career

4 min read

Arafat

Jan 7 '23

6 Project Management Tools To Boost Your Productivity

#playwright #testing #coding #opensource

4 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Jan 3 '23

6 ways we improved our documentation in 2022

#showdev #opensource #productivity #javascript

7 min read

Shasheesh Purohit

Jan 7 '23

8 Unique git commands

#github #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Leo santos

Jan 7 '23

Onboarding to JavaScript: A Beginner's Guide

#alibabachallenge #gamechallenge #opensource

2 min read

Chayti

Jan 7 '23

বুটস্ট্রাপ Carousel কম্পোনেন্ট এর ক্লাসগুলোর সহজ, সিম্পল বিশ্লেষণ

#programming #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Suraj Vishwakarma for Documatic

Jan 6 '23

Awesome Readme Examples for Writing better Readmes

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

CallmeHongmaybe

Jan 7 '23

Introducing my open source language flashcard app

#showdev #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Nomadev

Dec 29 '22

These 5 AI Tools Will Make You A Superhuman!!

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Jan 5 '23

Guide to TMUX - Terminal That Remembers Everything

#tmux #linux #opensource #bash

4 min read

Jan 6 '23

Creating GitHub Actions for community engagement

#github #actionshackathon #opensource #vue

9 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 5 '23

AWS open source newsletter - 2022 in review

#opensource #aws

4 min read

Christine Belzie

Jan 14 '23

Beyond Code: Creative Contributions to Open Source

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie

3 min read

DASWU

Jan 6 '23

Storage Evolution of Unisound’s HPC Platform with JuiceFS

#storage #opensource #ai

12 min read

guto

Jan 6 '23

Taking the terminal to the next level: customizing features

#opensource #github #programming

13 min read

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