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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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Oct 11 '18

Looking for Contributors and Sponsors for CVPM (Computer Vision Package Manager)

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 8 '18

Deer

#electron #notes #react #opensource

1 min read

Vasyl Stokolosa

Oct 10 '18

JavaScript library that provides useful functional programming helpers

#discuss #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Oct 7 '18

Realizando sonho de trabalhar full time com Open Source

#showdev #opensource #homeoffice #work

3 min read

Scott Chamberlain

Oct 3 '18

limiting dependencies in R package development

#r #opensource #code

1 min read

Sep 29 '18

Open source tool to quickly transfer files via a neat web interface

#opensource #tool

1 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Sep 26 '18

The most funded open source projects on IssueHunt

#showdev #opensource

3 min read

Ali Oğuzhan Yıldız

Sep 22 '18

React EdiText - Inline Editable Text Component

#javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Nathan Sebhastian

Sep 9 '18

I'm running dev.to source code on Windows

#windows #opensource #devto

1 min read

Sep 5 '18

Why Open Source is Invaluable to the Development and Testing Community

#opensource

4 min read

Ido Shamun for Daily

Sep 5 '18

Most Popular Development Posts Of The Week (05 September 2018)

#frontend #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Aug 29 '18

Italian Hacker Camp 2018 – I was there

#mozilla #opensource #hacking #event

1 min read

Aug 23 '18

Workflow Wednesday - Spectacle

#productivity #workflow #tools #opensource

1 min read

Matteo Joliveau

Aug 13 '18

I built a custom CMS because why not

#showdev #ruby #rails #opensource

4 min read

Aug 16 '18

Going Into Open-Source Projects as A Way to Brush Up

#discuss #opensource #learning

1 min read

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