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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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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Feb 7 '19

DEV Community Is Open-Sourcing Its Performance Metrics via Skylight

#showdev #meta #opensource #rails

3 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Feb 15 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Glenn Carremans

Feb 15 '19

Changelog: Github PR Liquid Tag Support

#changelog #meta #opensource #github

2 min read

himanshuseth004 for TestMu AI

Feb 15 '19

Selenium Grid Setup Tutorial For Cross Browser Testing

#testing #webdev #tutorial #opensource

17 min read

Ryo Ota

Feb 9 '19

Data Streaming between Every Device over HTTP/HTTPS

#showdev #typescript #linux #opensource

4 min read

Feb 1 '19

Retired, Apparently

#career #ruby #opensource #github

1 min read

Feb 11 '19

How to generate tons of random CSV files in Java

#java #opensource

3 min read

Feb 12 '19

Compress image in browser? Easy!

#javascript #image #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Feb 11 '19

2D parallax, Product comparison, Image clipping & more | Module Monday 28

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Feb 8 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Two Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

7 min read

Feb 6 '19

Building Chatt - A Real-time Multi-user GraphQL Chat App

#serverless #graphql #opensource #react

4 min read

Joseph

Feb 9 '19

Open Source Project for ChromeOS and Chromebook Users

#opensource #webdev #chrome #tools

1 min read

Feb 4 '19

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

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 30 '19

Awesome List of Developer Podcasts

#career #podcast #opensource #githunt

1 min read

nikhiltyagi04 for TestMu AI

Feb 7 '19

Feature Detection With Modernizr For Cross Browser Compatibility

#css #webdev #javascript #opensource

10 min read

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