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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

Aug 27 '18

50 popular JavaScript open-source projects on GitHub in 2018

#javascript #projects #opensource #github

11 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Aug 28 '18

How to Install Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu Linux

#opensource #howto #linux #ubuntu

2 min read

Josh Cheek

Aug 21 '18

This website is open source

#opensource

3 min read

Vincenzo

Aug 22 '18

Opensource Games Creator Community: call for help

#help #games #opensource #showdev

2 min read

Aug 20 '18

Module Monday 9: Masonry gallery, Side-scroll cards, Dark contact form & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Aug 25 '18

Open Checklist - React (Preact)

#showdev #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

James Turner for Turner Software

Aug 25 '18

Mongo what now?

#showdev #mongodb #opensource #dotnet

4 min read

Jitendra

Aug 23 '18

Do you put examples/ directory with sample code for integrating your library?

#discuss #faq #opensource #example

1 min read

Aug 22 '18

Adventures of a Hobbyist ~ Part five

#config #node #learning #opensource

4 min read

Aug 21 '18

ClassicPress - a Wordpress fork without Gutenberg

#wordpress #opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Oleksii Trekhleb

Aug 18 '18

Top 33 JavaScript Projects on GitHub (August 2018)

#javascript #opensource #programming #webdev

3 min read

Daniyar Zhadyrassyn

Aug 17 '18

My first PR merged!

#github #opensource #contribution

1 min read

Michael MacTaggert

Aug 16 '18

Open Source Has Not Failed. Don't Cover Up Corporate Abuse of Open Source

#opensource #technology #career #rant

7 min read

Aug 20 '18

Show Dev.to: Open source boilerplate app to build your own SaaS product

#showdev #opensource #saas #javascript

1 min read

Avnish

Aug 23 '18

How to start contributing to open source?

#help #python #data #opensource

1 min read

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