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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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Pietro Bongiovanni

Feb 10 '18

A brief history of my first OSS contribution

#opensource #history #softwaredevelopment

4 min read

Aug 29 '17

Develop and Debug Services Locally Against Remote Kubernetes Clusters with Telepresence

#programming #opensource #kubernetes #devtips

2 min read

Jason C. McDonald

Aug 17 '17

The Other Ransomware

#opensource #fileformats #projects #ethics

7 min read

Sep 23 '17

Bootstrapping a JavaScript Library

#javascript #node #library #opensource

7 min read

Jul 7 '17

Open multiple simultaneous pull requests

#git #branching #forking #opensource

2 min read

Jun 19 '17

How the Microsoft Bot Framework Changed Where My Friends and I Eat: Part 2

#dotnet #opensource #microsoft #bots

10 min read

Tom Houlé

May 26 '17

Releasing Papers, a PDF generation service based on LaTeX, written in Rust

#latex #rust #pdf #opensource

5 min read

JoniSar

May 29 '17

When Writing Code Meets The Marshmallow Test

#programming #psychology #coding #opensource

5 min read

May 26 '17

'Lowering' in the C# Compiler (and what happens when you misuse it)

#c #opensource #roslyn

8 min read

JoniSar

May 1 '17

Coding In The Age Of Code Components

#programming #opensource #softwareengineering #webcomponents

4 min read

Apr 11 '17

Things you can do to contribute to open source

#opensource #contributing

3 min read

Daniel Cherubini

Mar 14 '17

Github Issues: Helping without committing.

#github #opensource #issues

3 min read

Christoph Wurst

Mar 9 '17

Installing .NET Core 1.1.1 SDK on Travis CI

#dotnet #dotnetcore #opensource #travis

1 min read

Mar 7 '17

Nevertheless, Rebecca Bilbro Coded

#shecoded #python #datascience #opensource

4 min read

Gerald Nash ⚡️

Mar 6 '17

The Government Can't Code

#civichacking #code #opensource #government

3 min read

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