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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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Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Feb 4 '21

January: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#opensource #meta #webdev

2 min read

Feb 7 '21

A complete guide to send email in .NET (2021)

#dotnet #csharp #opensource

7 min read

Fleek for Fleek

Feb 3 '21

Introducing the Space SDK: Build Your Web & Mobile App on the Open Web

#opensource #webdev #javascript #typescript

6 min read

Feb 6 '21

The first Open Source contribution, a beginner perspective

#opensource #typescript #beginners

5 min read

Nil Madhab

Feb 4 '21

Let’s Develop an Online Code Editor/Compiler Like HackerRank

#career #programming #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Feb 1 '21

Optimizing API calls in web components

#javascript #webdev #opensource #github

5 min read

Lucas Santos for Microsoft Azure

Feb 10 '21

Controlando containers de dentro sua aplicação com ContainerD

#containers #docker #oci #opensource

16 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 1 '21

AWS open source news and updates #54

#aws #opensource

12 min read

Feb 4 '21

The value of pair programming • solving problems, making fixes

#github #opensource #codenewbie #unity3d

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 3 '21

A simple CI/CD system for your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow development workflow

#aws #opensource

15 min read

Feb 1 '21

A playground for JavaScript Keyboard events and the code list

#javascript #productivity #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Feb 3 '21

design-resources-for-developers

#design #github #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Amal Shaji

Feb 3 '21

Fake API - An API to generate fake data

#python #opensource

2 min read

Jan 23 '21

Applying to the MLH Fellowship: Tips & Tricks

#mlhgrad #github #opensource #career

11 min read

Robby Russell 🐘🚂 for Oh My Zsh

Feb 3 '21

Oh My Zsh: 2020 Year in Review

#zsh #ohmyzsh #opensource #cli

6 min read

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