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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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Danyson

Jun 12 '21

How to do your first contribution with an Open Source project in GitHub ?

#github #opensource #programming #beginners

1 min read

Vicky Koblinski

Jun 11 '21

Contributing To Open Source - Getting Started

#opensource #contributorswanted #github #codenewbie

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 10 '21

Working with Amazon EKS and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow v2.x

#aws #opensource

12 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Jun 10 '21

May: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#opensource #meta

2 min read

Daniel Parmenvik

Jun 10 '21

Introduction to open source security in the supply chain e-book

#ebook #npm #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jun 10 '21

Google Season of Docs - 1

#devjournal #opensource #github #javascript

6 min read

Jun 9 '21

How to make your open source project contributor friendly 🤗

#watercooler #opensource #github #feedback

6 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Jun 3 '21

How to never type passwords when using Git

#opensource #github #git #security

5 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Jun 8 '21

Setting up application monitoring for your Nodejs app in 20 mins with open source solution

#node #devops #monitoring #opensource

5 min read

Ali Abbas

Jun 8 '21

🚀 PlayStore App Info API

#opensource #npm #javascript #node

3 min read

Jun 6 '21

Sharing my Free Open Source Anti-Procrastination app made in React Native & Firebase (⚛ + 🔥)

#showdev #reactnative #firebase #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 7 '21

AWS open source news and updates #71

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Keshav

Jun 7 '21

21 Open Source Programs & Paid Virtual Internships You Can Apply to!! 💯

#opensource #github #productivity #sideprojects

1 min read

Jun 7 '21

How to build and run Kubernetes locally .

#opensource #kubernetes #devops

2 min read

Supritha

Jun 17 '21

Free resources to learn Git and GitHub

#github #git #opensource #free

3 min read

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