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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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Jan 28 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Jan 28th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Jan 28 '19

Portfolio gallery, Face detection, YouTube overlay & more | Module Monday 26

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Tim Perry

Jan 31 '19

Debugging Netlify Function Errors with Sentry

#debugging #opensource #netlify #sentry

5 min read

Jan 30 '19

JavaScript RPG fun and open source

#contributorswanted #opensource

1 min read

Jan 26 '19

I use the GitHub Desktop app for one thing. Am I doing this wrong?

#discuss #opensource #github #help

1 min read

Strahinja

Jan 30 '19

How personal opensource project helped me learn GO

#opensource #go

4 min read

Arek Nawo

Jan 29 '19

Open-source graveyard 💀

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jan 19 '19

Introducing Dank Neon, a new open source code theme!

#code #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Jonathan Boudreau

Jan 13 '19

Why is Linux Not More Popular on the Desktop?

#discuss #linux #opensource

1 min read

Jan 28 '19

Create your own eCommerce Shop in Laravel

#githunt #laravel #opensource #webdev

1 min read

arnabroychowdhury for TestMu AI

Jan 25 '19

Will ReactJS Continue To Dominate In 2019?

#react #javascript #opensource #angular

5 min read

Jan 21 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Jan 21st edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Jan 22 '19

Any contribution to Open Source is valuable

#opensource #gatsby

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jan 25 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Jan 25 '19

Feedback on Portfolio

#help #portfolio #feedback #opensource

1 min read

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