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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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Emanuel Allely for Luos

Dec 1 '21

What is Luos?

#luos #embedded #opensource #microservices

1 min read

Igor Lukanin for Cube

Nov 30 '21

Building a metrics dashboard with Superset and Cube

#tutorial #opensource #analytics #dataviz

11 min read

Nov 30 '21

"grep" Command In Linux/Unix

#linux #systems #opensource

5 min read

Jan Cizmar for Tolgee

Nov 30 '21

🌎 Why you should prepare your project for localization (i18n) right now

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Nov 8 '21

Join Us for the 2021 GitHub Actions Hackathon on DEV!

#actionshackathon21 #actions #opensource #github

3 min read

Nov 30 '21

Asciinema actions

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

2 min read

Liran Tal

Nov 30 '21

The maintainer's CI workflows recipe for a peaceful open source life

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

4 min read

Luigi Zaccagnini

Oct 31 '21

Inspired to improve Octo!

#opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 29 '21

AWS open source news and updates 92

#opensource #aws

12 min read

Luigi Zaccagnini

Nov 30 '21

Contributing to Local Opensource Projects

#opensource #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Oct 31 '21

Hawk Open Source Project

#showdev #github #python #opensource

1 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Nov 29 '21

How do you manage releases on Github ?

#discuss #github #opensource

1 min read

Kayode

Nov 29 '21

My Github Action Hackerthon experience but with a wacky project

#actionshackathon21 #actionshackathon #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Anthony Viard for Entando

Nov 29 '21

Discovering the Entando Standard Banking Demo

#javascript #microservices #jhipster #opensource

1 min read

Oct 30 '21

Treasure Hunt: 5 Juicy Repos on GitHub

#programming #beginners #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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