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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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Fanny

May 25 '20

Dear, Code Reviewer

#github #opensource #codereview

3 min read

May 24 '20

Why Contribute to Open Source

#opensource #contributing #software #community

3 min read

May 24 '20

REDIS OPEN-SOURCE GRANT PROGRAM

#redis #opensource #monetization #github

2 min read

Matteo Joliveau

Oct 17 '17

GNU Public License is all but free and you should never use it

#opensource

4 min read

Erik Riedel, PhD

May 13 '20

discovering storage with k8s via rancher

#kubernetes #opensource #hardware #infrastructure

3 min read

Lucca Raphael for AnbuDev.

May 12 '20

HoneyDocker

#docker #opensource #security

10 min read

David Alexander

Sep 23 '17

On the Importance of Packaging

#workflow #opensource #python

5 min read

May 21 '20

Launching my very first VS Code theme: Nevermore

#theme #vscode #opensource

2 min read

Kautilya Tripathi

May 20 '20

gRPC-cache

#go #opensource #grpc

1 min read

Arundhati Gupta

May 20 '20

Android Clean Architecture Boilerplate Code Generator

#android #kotlin #npm #opensource

2 min read

Cris 👨🏻‍💻

May 12 '20

Explain Open Source Software Licenses Like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive #opensource #linux #software

1 min read

Apr 24 '20

Get Involved: Open Source Healthcare Software

#opensource #webdev #covid19 #javascript

4 min read

Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

May 25 '17

How to Get Started with Open Source

#opensource #juniordevelopers #career

4 min read

Shubheksha Jalan

Sep 14 '16

New Contributors To Open Source, Please Blog More

#blogging #opensource

1 min read

May 24 '17

Surviving Open-Source

#opensource #startup #software #github

4 min read

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