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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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Sqreen for Sqreen

Mar 1 '18

Context information storage for asyncio

#dev #python #opensource

10 min read

Mar 1 '18

AlloyCI Dev Diary - Part 1

#elixir #opensource #sideprojects #devdiary

3 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Mar 27 '18

Why these 5 myths about the Linux command-line are false

#opensource #howto #linux #list

6 min read

YCM Jason

Feb 22 '18

Introducing Faviator: A simple easy favicon generator

#showdev #favicon #opensource #npm

3 min read

kelseyevans for Datawire

Feb 23 '18

gRPC and the open source Ambassador API Gateway

#showdev #opensource #programming #grpc

3 min read

Php Profi

Feb 19 '18

Slack. Send simple message.

#php #webdev #opensource #slack

4 min read

Frank@theOpenSourceU.org

Feb 22 '18

Bouncy - Open Source Code Exploration

#github #opensource #node #exploration

4 min read

kelseyevans for Datawire

Feb 20 '18

Deploying Java Apps with Kubernetes and the Ambassador API Gateway

#java #tutorial #kubernetes #opensource

13 min read

kelseyevans for Datawire

Feb 22 '18

Building Ambassador, an Open Source API Gateway on Kubernetes and Envoy

#showdev #opensource #kubernetes #grpc

5 min read

Feb 21 '18

MarkdownHelper#include

#opensource #ruby #documentation

1 min read

Feb 15 '18

Ruby Helper for GitHub Markdown

#github #ruby #opensource

1 min read

Feb 14 '18

How do I get started contributing to open source?

#opensource #beginners

5 min read

Xing Wang

Apr 24 '18

The Best Free REST API Debugging Tools for Developing APIs

#tools #webdev #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Feb 7 '18

GitHub Markdown Tips

#opensource #learning #github #markdown

2 min read

Dinesh Pandiyan

Feb 4 '18

How I got started with Open-Source 🎉

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

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