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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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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

Austin Spivey for Wia

Jun 26 '18

Connecting a LoRa device to Wia via The Things Network

#lora #learn #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Jun 18 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (June 18 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jun 25 '18

Alternative ‘Doors’ to your Windows

#productivity #opensource #windows

5 min read

Jun 24 '18

Providing a Better GitHub Issue Experience

#github #opensource

3 min read

Jun 13 '18

3 Essential Components of Great Documentation

#documentation #nicedocs #opensource

5 min read

Jun 21 '18

Github Guesser - A Starry Game - 2 weeks of data

#showdev #opensource #preact #github

2 min read

Austin Spivey for Wia

Jun 21 '18

Setup Your Quectel BC95-G and Post any Event to Wia

#opensource #tutorial #startup #setup

4 min read

Austin Spivey for Wia

Jun 18 '18

Setup a Pycom FiPy and Publish an Event to Wia Using Python

#python #beginners #opensource #tutorials

5 min read

Jun 11 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (June 11 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Erin Quinn for Mapbox

Jun 15 '18

Welcome to the Mapbox Developer community, Pride style

#opensource #webdev #javascript #mapping

4 min read

Austin Spivey for Wia

Jun 18 '18

How to upload a file to Wia's REST API

#beginners #tutorial #cloud #opensource

2 min read

Austin Spivey for Wia

Jun 19 '18

Breaking Changes in ArduinoJson 6.0

#discuss #json #arduino #opensource

1 min read

Jun 17 '18

What's a good light weight library to handle inputting text that also supports file uploads?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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