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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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Sebastian Huckleberry

Aug 11 '22

Run README.md in your terminal

#programming #opensource #productivity #bash

4 min read

Aug 21 '22

GSoC 2022 CircuitVerse | Week 9 and 10 Report

#javascript #webdev #opensource #internship

1 min read

Stefan Sundin for AWS Community Builders

Aug 21 '22

Stable versions of shrimp and s3sha256sum

#aws #s3 #opensource

2 min read

Necati Özmen for Refine

Aug 19 '22

Temporal API - A new approach to managing Date and Time in JS

#javascript #opensource #webdev #programming

7 min read

Aug 20 '22

Coding Period GSoC'22 | Week 7 + 8 + 9

#gsoc #opensource #career #productivity

1 min read

Tony Holdstock-Brown

Aug 19 '22

Building infrastructure for an open-source programmable zapier

#discuss #javascript #opensource #architecture

3 min read

Ole Lensmar for Kubeshop

Aug 19 '22

Monokle 1.10 improves on cluster inspection

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #gitops

1 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Jul 20 '22

The magic hand

#opensource #microservices #embedded #luos

1 min read

shiahalan

Aug 19 '22

Project Six (Python): Basic Calculator

#python #beginners #opensource #programming

1 min read

Intesar Mohammed

Aug 17 '22

Quiz - Are you ready for a promotion?

#discuss #tutorial #opensource #programming

1 min read

Christophe Colombier

Aug 20 '22

Ethical source movement, or how to try to fight the evil corporation to use your code

#opensource #ethics

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Aug 18 '22

How I Created a One-Page Swag Store in 15 minutes

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

7 min read

Aug 18 '22

Using OpenStreetMap For Your Web Projects

#opensource #openstreetmap #node

5 min read

Aug 18 '22

Here be docs

#todayilearned #crystal #programming #opensource

3 min read

Shloka

Aug 16 '22

Contributing to docs!

#documentation #opensource #beginners #devjournal

2 min read

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