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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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Elliot Lee for RippleX Developers

Sep 23 '21

Announcing the First Wave of XRPL Grants

#xrplgrants #xrpl #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

Shikhar

Sep 22 '21

I finally released the app I was working on for over a month! It's called Twester.

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Ram Maheshwari ♾️

Sep 6 '21

I Created an OpenSource Portfolio Template for Developers 🚀

#career #javascript #css #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 23 '21

Integrating Amazon Timestream in your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow v2.x

#opensource #aws

29 min read

Sep 23 '21

Introducing Leaf PHP 3

#php #opensource #laravel #leafphp

6 min read

AnkithaTech11 for Aviyel Inc

Sep 23 '21

Coffee & Code: Getting Started with Gatsby Documentation on Docz by Tapas Adhikary

#docz #opensource #documentation #coding

1 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 22 '21

React Berry Dashboard - 360 Degrees Review

#react #dashboards #opensource

4 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Sep 17 '21

From Zero to Hero: Quick Tips to Navigating Open Source Like a Pro

#opensource #githubactions #github

4 min read

Vadim Smirnov for Medusa

Sep 21 '21

Integrate Segment to your Medusa project

#node #javascript #opensource #twilio

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 20 '21

AWS open source news and updates #82

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Thomas Bnt

Sep 20 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021 is coming !

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Sep 20 '21

OpenTelemetry vs Prometheus - Key Differences Explained

#devops #monitoring #opensource #sre

10 min read

Savannah Copland 👋

Sep 20 '21

iOS 15 iCloud Private Relay Vulnerability Identified

#opensource #javascript #webdev #computerscience

7 min read

Ayu Adiati

Sep 20 '21

Why Ethics In Contributing To Open-Source Matters

#watercooler #opensource #webdev #codenewbie

4 min read

Vincent Villafuerte for Dev Protocol

Sep 20 '21

Building your Open Source Project with Dev Dapp Starter Grants

#blockchain #development #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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