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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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Tal Bereznitskey

Nov 25 '18

So why did GitHub send me this T-shirt?

#github #tshirt #opensource

1 min read

Nov 23 '18

3 reasons why devs don’t contribute to open source. Discuss!

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

Nov 21 '18

Thank You, 10 Open Source Projects that Helped Build a Business

#webdev #opensource #ruby #rails

4 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 21 '18

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Nov 18 '18

Open todo list standard?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Oleksiy Rudenko

Nov 22 '18

An intro to contributing to a 3rd party repo for beginners

#git #opensource #beginners #contribution

4 min read

Nov 18 '18

Best command line utilities

#commandline #dev #opensource #awesome

2 min read

Antonio

Nov 21 '18

NPM behind the scenes and publish guide

#node #npm #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Nov 13 '18

Real time + Postgres = ?

#webdev #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Yoandy Rodriguez Martinez

Nov 20 '18

Visualize how google autocomplete your searches

#opensource #tools #visualization

1 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Nov 19 '18

Weekly Trending Repositories on GitHub (Nov.11 ~ Nov.17)

#opensource #github

6 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 14 '18

dev.to Repo Recap of the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Nov 14 '18

Memory leak, redirect loop, deadlock, XSS, CSRF, XEE, ..., understanding bugs by using too buggy web application

#webdev #opensource #security #beginners

2 min read

Nov 12 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (November 12th edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Nov 18 '18

My Hacktoberfest 2018 Experience

#opensource #career

5 min read

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