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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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Jan 28 '20

What is your opinion on "advertising" in library logs?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Roelof Jan Elsinga

Jan 30 '20

What I learned from publishing my first Golang package

#showdev #go #opensource #programming

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 29 '20

AWS open source news and updates #4

#opensource #aws

6 min read

Raquel Campuzano Godoy

Jan 29 '20

Develop Locally A Custom WordPress Using A Bitnami Docker Image

#docker #kubernetes #opensource #devops

5 min read

Valentino Gagliardi

Jan 28 '20

Understanding the Firefox Dev Tools Architecture, and How to Start Contributing to Firefox

#javascript #react #redux #opensource

9 min read

Jan 30 '20

Scraping the web with Node.js

#node #javascript #opensource #scraping

6 min read

manish srivastava

Feb 28 '20

Call to Join Opensource Project : OSINT for Epidemics and Virus outbreaks like Corona Virus

#opensource #github #ai #bigdata

1 min read

Joel Vinay Kumar

Jan 29 '20

What is free software and why you should care ?

#opensource #gpl #freedom #meta

2 min read

Jeff Stern for Tidelift

Jan 28 '20

Tidelift and Girls Who Code partner to support diversity in open source

#opensource #inclusion #a11y

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras

Jan 28 '20

What makes you want to contribute to an open source project?

#opensource

1 min read

Jan 27 '20

The Joys of Writing an Elixir SDK

#elixir #opensource

3 min read

Jan 28 '20

LuduStack - A new initiative to help independent game developers

#contributorswanted #opensource #gamedev #socialnetwork

4 min read

Jan 28 '20

Open Source iOS Projects

#help #discuss #ios #opensource

1 min read

Ania Kubow

Jan 27 '20

BUILD NOKIA 3310 SNAKE using JavaScript in under 15 minutes

#javascript #gamedev #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Jan 27 '20

Automagically bookmarking youtube videos for developers

#bookmarks #productivity #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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