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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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May 7 '21

Good Git Commits

#github #git #firstpost #opensource

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

May 7 '21

Embedded service

#embedded #microservices #opensource #embeddedsystems

5 min read

Mathew J Padayatty for Aviyel Inc

May 2 '21

Content & Community- A Cheatsheet for Open Source projects. ( Part 1: Content 🎨)

#webdev #opensource #startup #productivity

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 4 '21

AWS open source news and updates #66

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Nočnica Mellifera for New Relic

May 4 '21

Pixie is now open source

#kubernetes #observability #opensource

2 min read

May 4 '21

A check for Cryptocurrency Prices 💸 on VS Code

#vscode #productivity #opensource #cryptocurrency

1 min read

Gabriel Manussakis

May 4 '21

Why I decided to make a portfolio template an open source project (instead of selling it on ThemeForest)

#showdev #a11y #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Lee Reilly

May 4 '21

12 open source projects for #StarWarsDay

#github #opensource #starwars #starwarsday

8 min read

May 3 '21

Automate backing up your Docker volumes

#docker #containers #devops #opensource

4 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

May 3 '21

April: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#opensource #meta

2 min read

Siddharth Chandra

May 3 '21

How To Create A Paint Brush Application Using OpenCV

#python #opencv #application #opensource

9 min read

Guy Torbet

May 1 '21

How to Build a Blog in NextJS and Get a Perfect Lighthouse Score

#react #nextjs #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Ryan Carniato for Playful Programming

Apr 22 '21

Of Chickens and Pigs - The Dilemma of Creator Self Promotion

#webdev #devjournal #javascript #opensource

9 min read

Apr 30 '21

Authoring Great Pull Requests

#opensource #github #programming #tutorial

6 min read

Apr 30 '21

My Journey at the MLH Fellowship

#showdev #opensource #mlhgrad #computerscience

7 min read

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