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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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Jun 21 '21

Automating WhatsApp web with alright

#showdev #python #opensource #programming

6 min read

Jun 22 '21

How to configure Continuous Integration through Github Actions?

#github #opensource #devops #tutorial

5 min read

Jun 22 '21

PWA Universal Controller

#webdev #pwa #opensource #automation

3 min read

Adrian Matei for Codever

Jun 22 '21

View code snippets in fullscreen mode

#productivity #angular #opensource #codever

1 min read

Jon Dodd

Jun 22 '21

Fluent Assertions 10 Top Tips

#webdev #opensource #csharp #testing

6 min read

Iele Passos for OpenDevUFCG

Jun 21 '21

Estamos de volta!

#ptbr #opensource

3 min read

Rahul

Jun 21 '21

Devtron, Heroku for Kubernetes, Open-source Delivery Workflow

#showdev #kubernetes #devops #opensource

1 min read

Jun 21 '21

List of Open Source Projects ML

#opensource #datascience #machinelearning #beginners

2 min read

Prashant Ghildiyal

Jun 21 '21

Demystifying AppOps - DevOps done right!

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Jun 21 '21

How I Make My First (real) Open Source Contribution

#beginners #opensource #github

4 min read

Neha Soni

Jun 20 '21

How to Build a Strong Professional Network Online

#devjournal #career #opensource

4 min read

Jun 17 '21

macOS themed Portfolio website

#react #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Jun 20 '21

How to write a README file for your Github Profile?

#github #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 21 '21

AWS open source news and updates #73

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Jun 20 '21

Version Control System For Beginners- Part III

#github #git #opensource

5 min read

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