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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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Gaurav

Jan 19 '21

Monotone - A Nuxt, tailwind portfolio and blog template powered by netlify CMS.

#vue #nuxt #netlify #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 18 '21

AWS open source news and updates #52

#aws #opensource

19 min read

Fum

Jan 17 '21

5 Convincing reasons to choose Linux for programming

#linux #opensource #productivity #beginners

7 min read

Alexander Buzin

Jan 18 '21

Discord community for Open Source founders

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #github

1 min read

Jan 13 '21

Why We Open Sourced Our Entire Product

#opensource #startup #testing #javascript

5 min read

Jiahao

Jan 17 '21

Open-source Deep Dive: Hound

#elixir #testing #opensource

12 min read

Jan 13 '21

Why I created a very simple photo blog generator

#javascript #webdev #opensource #ux

2 min read

Jan 16 '21

Release 1.49 of perl-workflow

#perl #release #opensource

4 min read

Jan 16 '21

SimplQ: How we went from a hackathon project to a fully open source project with contributors

#opensource #react #sideprojects #webdev

6 min read

ryo-ma

Jan 16 '21

Update: 🏆 GitHub Profile Trophy / Add dynamically generated GitHub Trophy on your readme

#showdev #github #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Jan 15 '21

Internal RFC Process and forem.dev Discussions

#opensource #meta #changelog

3 min read

Jan 14 '21

MLH Fellowship: Memories that I always love to bring back.

#mlhgrad #opensource #github #career

7 min read

Ali Abbas

Jan 14 '21

Setup Mobile OTP using AWS

#opensource #github #javascript #aws

1 min read

Jan 14 '21

Reclaim Your Data Privacy From Big Tech With the Best Privacy-Focused Alternatives

#productivity #opensource #security #tooling

8 min read

Adi Polak

Jan 14 '21

Apache Spark Ecosystem, Jan 2021 Highlights

#opensource #datascience #dataengineering

4 min read

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