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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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Dec 24 '21

Aspiring 16 year old quant developer contributing to Open Source Application

#opensource #discord

4 min read

Shai Almog

Dec 23 '21

End to end Debug Object Modeling. First hard problem in Building DDTJ - Day 4

#startup #opensource #java #programming

5 min read

Toby Chui

Dec 23 '21

I wrote a distributed ZeroTier like things in three weeks

#showdev #go #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Zeki Ahmet Bayar for Açıklab

Dec 22 '21

How to Create Private Vagrant Cloud on Ubuntu 20.04

#vagrant #devops #opensource #ubuntu

3 min read

Dec 22 '21

How to apply filters to images with Python

#showdev #python #programming #opensource

3 min read

UI Lib

Dec 22 '21

AatroX Vue Lite - Open-Source VueJS 3 & TailwindCSS Admin Dashboard Template is Out Now!

#vue #tailwindcss #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Shai Almog

Dec 22 '21

Code Coverage, Java Debugger API and Full Integration in Building DDJT - Day 3

#testing #java #startup #opensource

8 min read

Dec 22 '21

My first contribution to prometheus

#go #javascript #react #opensource

2 min read

Dec 22 '21

Rails 7.0 released… a non-event at Doctolib

#rails #database #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Dec 21 '21

Get started with Medusa Part 3: Exploring our Admin Dashboard

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #opensource

12 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 20 '21

AWS open source news and updates #94

#opensource #aws

12 min read

Luigi Zaccagnini

Dec 11 '21

Progress on Terminus

#opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

Dec 21 '21

Do you know SourceGraph's "Code Search"?

#sourcegraph #codesearch #techitout #opensource

4 min read

Anthony Viard for Entando

Dec 21 '21

Get Started with GitHub Actions

#devops #github #opensource #cicd

5 min read

Dec 21 '21

Release 0.20.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - a bug fix release

#githubaction #release #opensource

3 min read

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