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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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Jun 27 '22

t3 stack and my most popular open source project ever

#webdev #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Jun 27 '22

My Top 4 Open Source CRM. What are Yours?

#discuss #crm #opensource #yetiforce

2 min read

Amit Wani

Jun 27 '22

Create a Chatbot using WhatsApp Cloud API

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Jun 22 '22

How to Thank Sponsors for Supporting Your Open Source Project

#github #opensource #career #tutorial

5 min read

Shamanth Shetty for Kern AI

Jun 27 '22

AI-assisted newsletter dashboard

#news #programming #opensource #github

1 min read

Jun 27 '22

Into the Fray: A Dive into Deno

#deno #typescript #rust #opensource

3 min read

Jun 27 '22

What's your default .editorconfig?

#discuss #dotnet #tooling #opensource

2 min read

Nuno Góis

Jun 19 '22

Embed dev.to posts into your own website

#tutorial #svelte #webdev #opensource

6 min read

NOABLST

Jun 26 '22

What is OAS and why would you use it?

#oas #blst #openapi #opensource

2 min read

DMetaSoul

Jun 26 '22

Data engineers must-see: The future trend of big data cloud services

#database #dataengineering #bigdata #opensource

8 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 24 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #118

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Jun 11 '22

How to find Open Source projects to contribute

#opensource #beginners #github

6 min read

Jun 25 '22

GSoC 2022 CircuitVerse | Week 2 Report

#webdev #javascript #gsoc22 #opensource

3 min read

Asmit Malakannawar

Jun 25 '22

Google Summer of Code with GNOME Foundation.

#gsoc #gnome #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jun 24 '22

How to build a responsive header component with Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #tutorial #opensource #flowbite

10 min read

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