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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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Feb 28 '22

Building Unlighthouse: Open-Source Package For Site-wide Google Lighthouse scans

#performance #productivity #opensource #javascript

5 min read

Dhananjay Warade

Feb 28 '22

Want to Host Your Website for free?

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #github

2 min read

Feb 26 '22

What is HackForChange & why you should join it.

#productivity #career #opensource #devjournal

1 min read

Feb 26 '22

Race Condition in Golang

#go #codenewbie #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Simon Pfeiffer for Codesphere Inc.

Feb 25 '22

How to start contributing to Open Source projects on GitHub

#tutorial #opensource #github #programming

4 min read

Feb 26 '22

Looking for new features ideas for Cherrybomb

#rust #openapi #opensource #api

1 min read

Aiden Bai

Feb 26 '22

Exploring Blockdom: Fastest Virtual DOM (ever!)

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

A Serputov

Feb 26 '22

Assembler Basics.

#opensource #programming #c #git

5 min read

A Serputov

Feb 26 '22

AppleScript Automation.

#programming #opensource #automation

2 min read

Feb 25 '22

Schema - Your data ruler validator

#showdev #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Helitha Rupasinghe

Feb 25 '22

Secrets App Management

#opensource #javascript #programming #webdev

1 min read

Feb 25 '22

Release 0.22.0 and 0.22.1 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - feature release enabling Spanish

#opensource #release #githubaction #spellcheck

2 min read

Josefine Schfr for Storyblok

Feb 24 '22

Announcing @storyblok/svelte

#svelte #sdk #opensource #headlesscms

3 min read

Renan

Feb 24 '22

Dependency guards

#opensource #codequality #programming #devops

5 min read

Ayu Adiati

Feb 24 '22

How to fetch a contribution branch to test it locally as an open-source maintainer

#git #github #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

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