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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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Daniel for IssueHunt

Dec 12 '18

Weekly Trending Repositories on GitHub (Dec.02 ~ Dec.08)

#opensource #github

6 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Dec 6 '18

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Sasha Koss

Dec 6 '18

I pay $1 every hour I spend working on open-source

#opensource

3 min read

Dec 3 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Dec 3rd edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

kambala yashwanth

Dec 11 '18

Decentralized Twitter on EOS

#showdev #opensource #blockchain #eos

1 min read

Dec 9 '18

Outlook Notifications made easy !

#python #outlook #github #opensource

1 min read

Dec 1 '18

Introducing Gatsby Tutorials

#gatsby #react #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Emanuele Bartolesi

Dec 9 '18

A new way to contribute to Open Source Projects

#net #netcore #opensource #github

1 min read

Geshan Manandhar

Dec 1 '18

4 Ways Docker Changed the Way Software Engineers Work in Past Half Decade

#docker #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

jorin

Nov 29 '18

The Cloud Is the New OS - A Developer's Perspective

#technology #programming #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Nov 26 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (November 26th edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Dec 6 '18

I got all the certificates from FreeCodeCamp! Ask Something or Share Something from/with me

#discuss #opensource #showdev #ama

1 min read

Dec 6 '18

Prettyplan: an open-source Terraform formatting tool for devs

#showdev #devops #tools #opensource

2 min read

Banesa Guaderrama

Dec 4 '18

Open Source Contributions

#opensource #programming #begginer #coding

2 min read

Dec 3 '18

Module Monday 21: Split image wipe, Scroll top, Thumb grid & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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