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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.

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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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Mar 4 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (March 4th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Mar 6 '19

Top 5 Open Source eCommerce Frameworks (2025 Update)

#opensource #ecommerce #platforms #framework

3 min read

edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Mar 6 '19

Invented here syndrome

#programming #productivity #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Erik Booij

Mar 5 '19

Lazily loading template data in PHP with Twig and Shoot

#webdev #tutorial #php #opensource

6 min read

Feb 28 '19

Showcase your Gatsby Site

#gatsby #opensource #typescript #jamstack

1 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Mar 1 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Mar 4 '19

Split testing, Image hue change, Popup form & more | Module Monday 30

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Feb 21 '19

Git Gud at git

#showdev #git #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Feb 14 '19

🎁💝DevTo CLI💝🎁: A Valentine's Day Gift To My Favorite People

#showdev #meta #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 23 '19

Android App for All Web Developers

#opensource #webdevelopers

1 min read

Feb 19 '19

The biggest mistake library and framework maintainers make

#react #webdev #opensource #opinion

1 min read

Feb 28 '19

How to start contributing in open source project

#opensource #php #phake #hamcrest

2 min read

Feb 25 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Feb 25th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

peaceiris

Feb 26 '19

MkDocs Material Boilerplate - Starter Kit

#opensource #boilerplate #documentation #staticsitegenerator

2 min read

Patrick Woods for Orbit

Feb 20 '19

Help build a list of awesome .dev sites

#showdev #opensource #discuss

1 min read

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