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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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Erica V for Educative

Apr 15 '22

3 philosophies that influenced software development

#watercooler #opensource #writing #philosophy

4 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Apr 15 '22

Luos Web App: Alpha Version

#webdev #saas #opensource #luos

1 min read

Apr 15 '22

Git & GitHub - Best Version Control and Source Code hosting platforms respectively!

#github #git #opensource #versioncontrol

3 min read

Mar 16 '22

A volunteer project that will change the world

#programming #opensource

1 min read

shiahalan

Apr 15 '22

Project Two (Python): Connect Four

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Ram Maheshwari ♾️

Apr 15 '22

Life-Changing Opportunity By GitHub For Students 🚀 | Github Student Dev Pack 👨‍💻

#programming #github #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Apr 15 '22

HOW TO BUILD YOUR ONLINE COMMUNITY?

#beginners #opensource #python

4 min read

acoder

Apr 15 '22

Top 3 Open Source JavaScript Libraries

#javascript #opensource #webdev #github

1 min read

Igor Lukanin for Cube

Apr 14 '22

Building dashboards over a semantic layer with Superset and Cube

#tutorial #opensource #analytics #database

18 min read

Apr 10 '22

Flutter GroupButton 5.0.0 release notes

#flutter #dart #android #opensource

2 min read

Nicolas Lorenzi for Luos

Apr 14 '22

Get Started Part 4: Connect to the network display tool

#tutorial #opensource #embedded #luos

1 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Apr 14 '22

How to Add Customer Profile to Your Next.js Ecommerce Store

#javascript #programming #webdev #opensource

14 min read

Apr 14 '22

My Journey in LGMSOC’21

#opensource #webdev #react #beginners

3 min read

Apr 14 '22

OAuth vs JWT (JSON Web Tokens): An In-Depth Comparison

#opensource #webdev #startup #javascript

6 min read

Apr 7 '22

What's an Open Source Project You Think Deserves More Support?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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