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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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Feb 23 '21

Switching to Arch Linux

#linux #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Kaiwalya Koparkar

Mar 24 '21

💻 Hackathons - All you need to know right now! 💻

#todayilearned #discuss #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Mar 21 '21

Contributing to Open Source in Quality Assurance

#opensource #testing #beginners

5 min read

Siddharth Chandra

Mar 21 '21

Python Asterisks

#python #programming #codenewbie #opensource

2 min read

tinega

Mar 23 '21

Manually add an appimage software shortcut to application menu in linux

#linux #ubuntu #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Bobby

Mar 22 '21

Open-source Introduction to Git and GitHub eBook 💡

#github #writing #books #opensource

4 min read

Sm0ke

Mar 21 '21

Javascript Chart Library - Open-source Projects

#webdev #javascript #charts #opensource

4 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Mar 23 '21

How to Build a Calendly Clone in 30 Minutes

#googlecloud #opensource #codenewbie #beginners

7 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Mar 23 '21

GraphQL Editor - new release v. 4.5

#news #graphql #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Mar 23 '21

Stallman's "that's how it is" isn't how it has to be.

#opensource

3 min read

Omer Aplak for Refine

Mar 23 '21

superplate - Performance-oriented Frontend application creator with popular tools

#typescript #opensource #nextjs #react

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 22 '21

AWS open source news and updates #61

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Mar 23 '21

What is Hacktoberfest?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

3 min read

Mar 22 '21

Porting a board game to the web

#vue #javascript #rails #opensource

5 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Mar 22 '21

Help Wanted: Do you have a Chromebook and want to contribute to DEV?

#help #opensource #a11y #frontend

1 min read

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