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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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Sep 11 '21

Everything you need to know about Outreachy!

#opensource #internship #diversityintech

10 min read

Sep 10 '21

My First Blog - Exploring Open Source!

#opensource #programming #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Joyce Wei

Sep 11 '21

Hello, Open Source.

#opensource

1 min read

Emily

Sep 11 '21

print('Hello, world!')

#opensource

1 min read

Sep 10 '21

console.log("Hello World! Open Source Development begins");

#opensource #github #senecacollege #browserextension

2 min read

dbelokon

Sep 10 '21

My Journey to Open Source

#opensource #github #senecacollege #fork

3 min read

Chuka

Sep 10 '21

OSCA OS Challenge 2021

#opensource #github #android

1 min read

Thanh Van

Sep 10 '21

This is my first blog!

#opensource #beginners #webdev

1 min read

Jake Barnby for Appwrite

Sep 9 '21

Magic URL login with Android + Appwrite

#news #opensource #tutorial #android

4 min read

Sep 10 '21

Rust VPP API Bindings | LFX Mentorship Project

#rust #coding #opensource #network

5 min read

Franklin Ohaegbulam

Sep 10 '21

My experience as a participant of Open Source Challenge by OSCA

#challenge #opensource #github

1 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 5 '21

Free Dashboards - Killer Templates for 2024

#dashboards #opensource

5 min read

Alejandra Quetzalli 🐾

Sep 10 '21

How to contribute to OSS AsyncAPI Initiative 🌈

#contributorswanted #opensource #eventdriven #tooling

2 min read

Sep 9 '21

Devtron : Deploy your applications over k3s, Lightweight Kubernetes, in no-time

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

5 min read

Damodar Lohani for Appwrite

Sep 8 '21

Magic URL authentication with Flutter + Appwrite

#news #flutter #opensource #serverless

4 min read

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