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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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Nov 27 '19

You Might Not Need Controlled Components

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

3 min read

arizpando

Dec 1 '19

Why arduino is the perfect mixture of electronics and programming

#opensource

1 min read

Mohammad S. Jaber

Nov 29 '19

Introducing Marked.cc

#vue #opensource #github #javascript

1 min read

Onurbon for Prodo

Oct 30 '19

Why can’t developers KISS?

#developertools #softwaredevelopment #opensource

4 min read

Richard Ng

Nov 28 '19

Strangers on the internet who inspired my open-source library

#redux #opensource #javascript #react

8 min read

Oct 21 '19

Exploration-Optimisation: the systematic improvement of user- generated solutions

#machinelearning #opensource #softwaredevelopment #learningtocode

9 min read

Dec 6 '16

So you wanna open source a project, eh?

#opensource #beginners

4 min read

Nov 18 '19

From Examples to an API description in 2 Minutes

#showdev #opensource

3 min read

MyVPN

Nov 19 '19

MyVPN.RUN - Desktop application for creating a personal VPN server. L2TP, PPTP, OpenVPN.

#anonymous #vpn #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Wade

Nov 18 '19

2020 ClassicPress Management Committee Elections

#wordpress #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

Ewerton Jordão

Nov 17 '19

PowerShell Core | Azure | Blob Storage

#opensource #azure #powershell

2 min read

Shad Mirza

Nov 14 '19

Vue.js and Getting Started with Open Source ft. Rahul Kadyan

#opensource #vue #beginners #javascript

3 min read

Oct 25 '19

Maintaining an open source gem in the Hacktoberfest

#ruby #community #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Nov 11 '19

My 2019 Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Nov 10 '19

Using Git the First Time

#github #opensource #git

2 min read

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