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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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Dec 4 '22

December goals

#productivity #beginners #programming #opensource

2 min read

Dec 4 '22

Day 4: GitHub Actions for Colombian Spanish.

#programming #opensource #python #ruby

3 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Dec 1 '22

4 Beginner Friendly Open Source Projects

#beginners #opensource #javascript #typescript

1 min read

Dec 3 '22

The Perl outlook for next year is favorable

#opensource #devto

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Dec 3 '22

December 5, 2022: FLiP Stack Weekly

#apachepulsar #apacheflink #apachenifi #opensource

7 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 29 '22

React Soft Dashboard - FullStack & Live Deploy

#webdev #react #fullstack #opensource

2 min read

Dec 3 '22

Day 3 v2: GitHub Action CI for wsblib Python

#python #opensource #beginners #programming

2 min read

Dec 3 '22

Day 3: CI for farmworld, a Python package - a failed attempt

#python #opensource #testing #programming

3 min read

Nov 3 '22

Get your ranking among all Stackoverflow users for your favourite technology

#javascript #webdev #opensource #node

2 min read

Bentil Shadrack

Dec 2 '22

Bootstrap vs Tailwind CSS

#cloud #opensource #softwaredevelopment

7 min read

Nandini Rajaram for AWS Community Builders

Dec 2 '22

Cook a recipe with AWS: Dynamo DB Table

#opensource

3 min read

Dec 2 '22

Illustrating Istio⛵

#devops #kubernetes #go #opensource

3 min read

Nov 25 '22

The perfect open-sourcer does not exist

#opensource #beginners #github #productivity

3 min read

Insight Lighthouse

Dec 2 '22

A Script Tells Me What To Test

#javascript #opensource #typescript #testing

1 min read

Nov 17 '22

dev.to is for webdevs and beginners - I have data to prove it

#webdev #beginners #opensource #meta

10 min read

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