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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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Siddharth Chandra

Dec 6 '20

Brocading Naruto - A Computer Vision Activity

#python #programming #opensource #github

3 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 4 '20

Django - A curated list with useful OSS projects

#django #webdev #opensource #appseed

4 min read

Nov 28 '20

React + Firebase + Stripe = Fireact, the open-source project for your next SaaS product.

#react #firebase #opensource #saas

2 min read

Dec 5 '20

EasyGrid - Examples of what you can do

#javascript #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Nov 30 '20

Four lessons I learned from maintaining a 10k stars project on Github

#showdev #opensource #github #webdev

3 min read

Ali Abbas

Dec 5 '20

Hacktoberfest Swags 💯

#showdev #hacktoberfest #opensource #discuss

1 min read

Dec 5 '20

Free Ideas for Free Learning

#career #webdev #opensource #bash

4 min read

Dec 4 '20

EasyGrid - Responsive Grid

#javascript #opensource

1 min read

Lasha Kakabadze

Nov 26 '20

Free React landing page template

#react #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Anjali Chaturvedi

Dec 4 '20

Open-Source community and Hactoberfest.

#hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie #github

1 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Dec 4 '20

This is the Way • GitHub Universe 2020 is here

#github #opensource

3 min read

Alan Lee

Dec 3 '20

Recurring Jira tickets with Reshuffle

#opensource #javascript #reshuffle #jira

3 min read

Jasmine Greenaway for Microsoft Azure

Dec 3 '20

Using SQL with Delta Lake [Create: Data]

#news #opensource #showdev #discuss

1 min read

Vaibhav Dwivedi

Dec 3 '20

How To Start Contributing in Open Source with Learningin.tech

#opensource #programming #resources #learning

2 min read

Erik Kroes

Dec 2 '20

Extending a component library and it’s documentation for speedy design system

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

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