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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 6 '22

GIT & GITHUB

#github #git #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Feb 5 '22

Top tips for creating a healthy and sustainable open source community

#github #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Paula

Feb 5 '22

Livecoding with Orca and minimalist tech

#music #opensource #orca

4 min read

Pavan Belagatti

Feb 5 '22

Learn Continuous Integration: Self-hosting Drone CI

#tutorial #devops #cloud #opensource

6 min read

Sm0ke

Feb 2 '22

Soft UI React Native - Free Product

#react #softui #opensource

2 min read

Khushboo Chaturvedi

Feb 4 '22

My Winter Of Code 2.0 experience at Moja Global

#opensource #experience #webdev #devjournal

3 min read

Aniket Pal

Feb 2 '22

Acing the MLH Fellowship selection rounds

#opensource #beginners #productivity #programming

5 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Feb 1 '22

How to build a footer component with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #webdev #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Feb 4 '22

Personal Pinterest with Uploadcare Chrome Extension

#javascript #webdev #opensource #browserextension

5 min read

spotnick

Feb 4 '22

My first Open Source Contribution and how to write better GIT commits

#beginners #programming #opensource

3 min read

Brian Douglas for GitHub

Feb 3 '22

Sharing excess food with OSS and React

#opensource #contributorswanted #react

1 min read

Karan Pratap Singh

Feb 3 '22

NATS with Kubernetes

#kubernetes #opensource

6 min read

Feb 3 '22

My FIRST OPEN SOURCE Contribution!! My First Attempt at Open-Source and First Blog

#opensource #firstpost

2 min read

Feb 1 '22

Top 7 LeetCode extensions

#productivity #programming #opensource #100daysofcode

4 min read

Michael Haberman for Aspecto

Feb 3 '22

OpenTelemetry and Istio: Everything you need to know

#webdev #microservices #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

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