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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

Pi-hole on Raspberry Pi with IPv6

#beginners #opensource #linux #learning

5 min read

Andreas Sommarström

Feb 23 '21

Understanding open source licenses - What is Copyleft?

#opensource #webdev #node #npm

6 min read

Lucas Santos for Microsoft Azure

Feb 23 '21

Dando permissões a usuários com Kubernetes

#kubernetes #containers #opensource #security

9 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 22 '21

AWS open source news and updates #57

#aws #opensource

17 min read

Vedant Chainani

Feb 2 '21

📛 Awesome Badges

#productivity #opensource #design

64 min read

Jarrod Connolly

Feb 18 '21

Contributing to Node.js Core

#node #javascript #opensource #cpp

4 min read

Sm0ke

Feb 14 '21

React Templates - A curated list with FREE projects

#react #webdev #opensource #dashboards

6 min read

miniscruff

Feb 20 '21

Changie - Automated Changelog Tool

#showdev #devops #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Aniket Singh for eduAlgo

Feb 20 '21

ALL ABOUT OPEN SOURCE

#opensource #github #git #community

7 min read

Eldad A. Fux for Appwrite

Feb 12 '21

Announcing the Release of Appwrite 0.7 - The Open Source Firebase Alternative

#javascript #webdev #flutter #opensource

3 min read

Alan Lee

Feb 19 '21

Using Twitter API and Reshuffle to manage Social Media Contests and Giveaways

#opensource #twitter #reshuffle #javascript

6 min read

Josh Simmons for Tidelift

Feb 18 '21

Better together: cultivating an open source ecosystem that works for everyone

#opensource

4 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Feb 18 '21

View your GitHub Contribution Graph as an animated skyline + 3D print it

#github #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 15 '21

AWS open source news and updates #56

#aws #opensource

13 min read

Feb 18 '21

Release 1.52 of perl-workflow

#perl #opensource #release

3 min read

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