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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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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 28 '20

For Empowering Community

#meta #opensource

6 min read

Jul 1 '20

Self-hosting privacy friendly web analytics on a budget

#showdev #opensource #privacy #devops

2 min read

Mike Solomon for Meeshkan

Jul 1 '20

We're open-sourcing our webapp

#news #opensource #webdev #typescript

4 min read

Julien Landuré

Jun 30 '20

How to celebrate an achievement as an open source developer?

#opensource #github #motivation #docker

1 min read

Developer Nation Survey

Jun 30 '20

Infographic: Who is behind open-source software?

#opensource

3 min read

Jun 29 '20

Node-RED from the basics to beyond in June

#opensource #node #javascript #nodered

2 min read

Jun 29 '20

Acil

#javascript #opensource #github

1 min read

Jun 26 '20

Open source maintainers: How do you work with tech writers?

#discuss #opensource #beginners #codenewbie

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 29 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 26

#opensource #aws

16 min read

Jun 28 '20

Project Overkill?

#discuss #sideprojects #opensource #microservices

1 min read

Jun 29 '20

OpenSource Pryv.io consent and privacy backend: Speed-up your personal data and health data apps development

#opensource #datamanagement #privacy #consent

4 min read

Nico Meisenzahl

Jun 29 '20

Azure Service Operator - manage your Azure resources with Kubernetes

#azure #kubernetes #gitops #opensource

6 min read

Dominik Ilnicki

Jun 24 '20

Open source diary #1

#opensource #react #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Jun 28 '20

How to deploy applications using Helm in Kubernetes?

#kubernetes #opensource #beginners #devops

1 min read

theapache64 for XenoX

Jun 26 '20

How we developed a chatbot to fight against COVID-19?

#showdev #opensource #kotlin

3 min read

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