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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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Lasse Schultebraucks

Dec 4 '18

Don't Think Technology orientated - Think Solution orientated

#technology #solution #junior #opensource

2 min read

Nov 26 '18

Date::Holidays 1.10 released

#opensource #cpan #dateholidays #perl

1 min read

Nov 26 '18

Date::Holidays 1.08 released

#opensource #dateholidays #perl #release

1 min read

Nov 26 '18

2018 Give Back Gift List

#givebackgiftlist #nontechnical #gratitude #opensource

5 min read

Jedidiah Weller 👑 for OpenForge

Nov 25 '18

Passion Projects are Fun - Except In Production

#javascript #devops #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Nov 27 '18

Documentation as a key to the strong tech community

#discuss #opensource #documentation

1 min read

Jonathan Nicholas

Nov 23 '18

Introducing instiz, my first published library on PyPI

#showdev #python #opensource

2 min read

hariharan

Nov 17 '18

I made a chrome extension called "Twitter Go".

#chromeextension #javascript #node #opensource

2 min read

Vince

Nov 19 '18

My First Open Source Project

#opensource #git #learning

4 min read

Brennan for PullRequest

Nov 19 '18

Using FOSSA for License Compliance

#opensource #licensing #startup

3 min read

Vishwajeet Srivastava

Nov 14 '18

Are podcasts part of your learning as a developer?

#discuss #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Santiago Figueiras

Nov 15 '18

Choosing an open source library/framework 👆

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Owais Ali

Nov 12 '18

My first experience of Hacktoberfest

#freecodecamp #github #opensource #100daysofcode

1 min read

Adriano Di Giovanni

Nov 9 '18

Meet Reaves

#javascript #node #opensource #database

2 min read

Nov 6 '18

Beta testers needed: New feature in elm-live

#elm #feedback #elmlive #opensource

1 min read

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