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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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Erik Booij

Feb 24 '19

Getting the most out of server side caching

#cache #php #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Artyom Keydunov for Cube

Feb 21 '19

Building a Serverless Mixpanel Alternative. Part 1: Collecting and Displaying Events

#serverless #node #opensource #javascript

6 min read

Feb 19 '19

Can forced linting surpress contributions when linting is first introduced?

#discuss #opensource #meta #linting

1 min read

Eugene Cheah for Uilicious

Feb 22 '19

Launch your own dev.to 🐳 server - with a single command (almost)!

#showdev #docker #opensource #meta

5 min read

Bryce Dorn

Feb 23 '19

GitLab Corners

#gitlab #corners #github #opensource

1 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Feb 22 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Feb 18 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Feb 18th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Sebastiaan Deckers for Commons Host

Feb 20 '19

Dohnut 🍩 DNS to DoH proxy

#showdev #opensource #dns

3 min read

Apr 20 '19

How to Build LaTeX with Travis CI and Minted

#latex #perl #opensource #ci

6 min read

Feb 21 '19

MySigMail release 1.6.0

#vue #githunt #opensource

1 min read

Bohdan Liashenko

Feb 18 '19

Codecrumbs - a new way of learning and documenting source code

#javascript #python #learning #opensource

3 min read

YCM Jason

Feb 19 '19

Frogram - this might be the best way to introduce programming to laymen

#beginners #tutorial #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Giuseppe Giulio

Feb 19 '19

node.js process killer

#node #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Feb 15 '19

How a simple website is going to solve the problem we all faced

#discuss #opensource #bestfordev

3 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Feb 12 '19

Fathom: An Open Source Google Analytics Alternative

#githunt #analytics #opensource #go

1 min read

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