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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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Dec 15 '20

My Journey of "Getting out of my Comfort Zone"!

#watercooler #motivation #opensource

4 min read

Alan Lee

Dec 17 '20

Programmatically Remind Your Teammates on Slack to Review GitHub PRs

#opensource #github #slack #reshuffle

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi

Dec 19 '20

Themesberg 2020 Year in Review: over 7500 users, 13 themes launched, investment from Creative Tim, and plans for the future

#opensource

6 min read

Dec 19 '20

Fire-UI : A User-Friendly and Reliable CSS Framework

#css #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Pranav Karawale

Dec 18 '20

How to keep your Firebase project safe and secure from everyone

#firebase #security #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Dec 13 '20

How consistently does your organization update dependencies?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Brian Douglas for GitHub

Dec 17 '20

Test anything that runs in the browser with Cypress and GitHub Actions

#opensource #github #githubactions

1 min read

Dec 18 '20

GitHub isn't just for code - Stream Deck templates for everyone

#github #opensource

2 min read

Budibase

Dec 3 '20

20 free developer tools we loved in 2020 😍

#webdev #productivity #opensource #beginners

5 min read

Manasa

Dec 17 '20

My Experience working for DEV in the MLH Fellowship

#forem #opensource #mlhgrad #rails

3 min read

Dec 17 '20

We just released free analytics to empower OSS!

#productivity #tooling #analytics #opensource

1 min read

Dec 16 '20

LinkAce - Your self-hosted bookmark archive

#news #php #opensource

3 min read

fquinner

Dec 12 '20

Windows 10 as a Linux Window Manager with WSL2

#showdev #productivity #opensource #development

3 min read

Dec 16 '20

Open Source Program which can help you to become a cool developer ( specially for student )

#opensource #newbie #devscriptwoc #scriptwoc

1 min read

Kostas Bariotis

Dec 13 '20

📽 Presentador: Build a presentation by writing Markdown

#opensource

1 min read

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