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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 5 '22

Building Kadi. The Kenyan version of Poker. Part 1, The rules.

#showdev #rails #ruby #opensource

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

May 23 '22

Which Frontend Framework Would You Use For an Ecommerce Storefront?

#discuss #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

julia ferraioli

Jun 4 '22

Why open source projects should embrace operational transparency

#opensource #socialmodel #transparency

5 min read

Jun 4 '22

OSS contributions in real life: Finbourne example, part 1

#opensource #finbourne #community #java

2 min read

Brayan Narváez

Jun 3 '22

Hexagonal Architecture in Go

#go #opensource #github #webdev

2 min read

Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

Jun 3 '22

Cloud Functions Using the New .NET Runtime

#appwrite #dotnet #opensource #cloud

7 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 2 '22

Can Open-Source Exist in China? 🎙

#news #opensource #ios #a11y

1 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

May 24 '22

Your Guide to DistSQL Cluster Governance Capability——Apache ShardingSphere Feature Update

#sql #database #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 3 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #115

#opensource #aws

16 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Jun 2 '22

Medusa v1.3.1: PriceList API, Promotions API, Migrations, And More!

#news #opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡ for AWS Community Builders

Jun 3 '22

Cloudsplaining - AWS IAM Security Assessment Tool

#cloud #aws #security #opensource

9 min read

Victor Eke

Jun 3 '22

Portfolio Ideas - An open-source repository for inspiration

#portfolio #webdev #github #opensource

4 min read

Khokon M.

Jun 2 '22

Should I start an Open-Source on my profile or my organization profile?

#discuss #opensource #webdev #showdev

1 min read

Amy Hays for Tidelift

Jun 3 '22

Choose your own adventure: Upstream is Tuesday! ⛰️

#opensource #maintainers #event

2 min read

Carlos Padilla for Medusa

Jun 14 '22

How to Create a Nuxt.js Ecommerce Storefront from Scratch Using Medusa Part 2: Adding Cart Functionality

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

22 min read

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