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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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Jul 23 '18

Module Monday: Photoswipe gallery, Fixed sidenav, Corner ribbon, & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Austin Spivey for Wia

Jul 26 '18

Build a smart mailbox with a Sigfox and Pycom

#python #opensource #iot #tutorial

5 min read

Isaac Lee

Jul 22 '18

Missing Codepoints

#showdev #materialicons #ember #opensource

3 min read

Jul 23 '18

Help Improve my Simple Open Source JavaScript Router

#help #opensource #javascript #router

1 min read

Jul 17 '18

Open source: Instagram Analyzer

#showdew #opensource #python #webdev

4 min read

Jul 16 '18

Module Monday: Cookie notifier, MailChimp mod, Editable job listings & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Jul 16 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (July 16 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jul 17 '18

When to give a star to an open source library?

#discuss #opensource #developers #community

1 min read

Jul 17 '18

Technical Writers in Need

#help #git #python #opensource

2 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Aug 13 '18

Ubuntu Linux is everywhere and connecting everything

#fossstories #linux #opensource #ubuntu

1 min read

Jul 23 '18

Open source tools for SQL Server on Linux

#linux #opensource #sqlserver

3 min read

Jul 9 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (July 9 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jul 10 '18

Module Monday: Swing-up form, Responsive Google Map, Call to action cards & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Jake Lewis

Jul 11 '18

Introducing re-agent: Java undo/redo & command delegation

#showdev #beginners #opensource #java

4 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Jul 10 '18

The virtuosity of reporting in the Open Source world

#dev #opensource

1 min read

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