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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 2 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (July 2 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Vladimir Agafonkin for Mapbox

Jun 25 '18

I'm an open source enthusiast at Mapbox, the creator of Leaflet and 40+ other JS libraries, and a rock musician. AMA!

#ama #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Tryolabs

Jul 10 '18

Getting Started with AWS: Open Source Workshop

#aws #deployment #workshop #opensource

3 min read

Jul 2 '18

Module Monday: Carousel slideshow, Sticky footer, Phone overlay & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Nuster Cache Server

Jul 9 '18

nuster - A high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy

#showdev #devops #opensource #programming

24 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Jul 5 '18

Sustainable Open Source Ecosystem with IssueHunt

#showdev #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Jul 2 '18

How to start learning React.js

#react #node #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Aug 8 '18

Tweaking Desktop settings in Ubuntu Linux with powerful GUI tools.

#uncategorized #opensource #gnometweaktool #linux

2 min read

Hannah (she/her)

Jun 29 '18

Theodora: Starting an Open Source Project

#ruby #rails #opensource

3 min read

Jun 30 '18

Google Summer of Code - can any organizations help me contribute?

#discuss #opensource #gsoc

1 min read

Jun 25 '18

Module Monday: Parallax scroll, Image gallery, Sidenav, & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

The OpenShift Ninja

Jul 2 '18

upcoming: Building Images With S2I

#docker #containers #images #opensource

1 min read

Jun 25 '18

Discuss: Why do developers equate popularity with success for OSS projects?

#discuss #opensource #elm

2 min read

Jun 25 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (June 25 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jun 27 '18

How to find Good First Issues to Contribute OSS

#showdev #opensource #javascript #graphql

3 min read

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