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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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Eduardo Ribeiro

Mar 22 '21

How to Start Contributing to Open Source Projects

#github #opensource #beginners #codenewbie

12 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Mar 21 '21

Show dev: free Django dashboard admin template

#showdev #opensource #django #bootstrap

3 min read

Mar 18 '21

How to release a new gem version

#ruby #opensource #github #tutorial

2 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Mar 20 '21

Let's Talk Python - Some of the Unknown 👤

#python #github #opensource #development

5 min read

Kaiwalya Koparkar

Mar 20 '21

📝Steps to take before starting a new Open-source project.📝

#todayilearned #opensource #tutorial #discuss

2 min read

Javid Mougamadou

Mar 20 '21

Photologue : Nice Image Management for Django with DRF Integration

#django #python #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Mar 20 '21

Perseverance

#opensource #microservices #clickbaittitle #github

4 min read

Fleek for Fleek

Mar 19 '21

Release Updates - Fleek Hosting CLI & API, and Github Actions

#news #git #webdev #opensource

6 min read

ImtiazKun

Mar 19 '21

Great Open Source Alternatives for paid products.

#opensource #linux #gamedev #productivity

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 15 '21

AWS open source news and updates #60

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Sergey Nikolaev

Mar 19 '21

Manticore Search: 3 years after forking from Sphinx

#elasticsearch #opensource #nlp #database

14 min read

Shanika Wickramasinghe for Fabric

Mar 19 '21

The Best Open Source Headless CMS Software

#opensource #webdev #frontend

9 min read

Mar 18 '21

How to use Git LFS to store big files on GitHub

#opensource #unity3d #gamedev #tutorial

3 min read

Vladimir Nikitin

Mar 17 '21

🎉 Zero-config JS Confetti library

#javascript #opensource #webdev #frontend

1 min read

Guy Torbet

Mar 12 '21

How I Built My Site (with Perfect Lighthouse Score)

#webdev #react #opensource #optimized

8 min read

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