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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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Janire Fernandez

Nov 20 '22

Android Jetpack Compose MVVM

#vue #opensource

4 min read

Gulnur Baimukhambetova

Nov 19 '22

New translation experience

#opensource #webdev #beginners #node

3 min read

Maxim Nosov ✪

Nov 19 '22

Code review best practices

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

2 min read

thomas for Playful Programming Angular

Nov 18 '22

NgRx Effect vs Reducer vs Selector

#opensource #ai #github

9 min read

TD

Nov 19 '22

Doing code reviews is a skill

#testing #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Nov 19 '22

3 Benefits of doing technical writing + 7 Tips to get you started

#react #github #opensource

5 min read

Nov 19 '22

Automate project tree with protree

#javascript #productivity #programming #opensource

1 min read

Nov 16 '22

DECO — Unofficial DEV Community App

#showdev #flutter #opensource #deco

3 min read

Gulnur Baimukhambetova

Nov 18 '22

Reviewing PRs

#beginners #opensource #programming #github

3 min read

Antoine Coulon for NodeSecure

Nov 18 '22

📦 Everything you need to know: package managers

#npm #node #opensource

11 min read

sfrunza13

Nov 18 '22

C.I. Continuous Integration

#programming #opensource #python #cpp

5 min read

CDPhu

Nov 18 '22

Internal Code Review - 1

#javascript #opensource #testing #github

2 min read

CDPhu

Nov 18 '22

Internal Code Review -2 & 3

#react #opensource #github #javascript

2 min read

Nov 7 '22

Giulio's Hacktoberfest 2022

#hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 16 '22

Django & Docker - SQLite, MySql, and PostgreSQL samples

#webdev #docker #django #opensource

3 min read

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