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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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manish srivastava

Nov 12 '20

NO MORE MEDIA QUERIES

#css #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Dec 10 '20

Open Source needs to change.

#opensource

1 min read

Dec 9 '20

Learning Elixir's GenServer with a real-world example

#elixir #opensource #beginners

14 min read

Dec 9 '20

The basics of GitHub and Git Commands for every beginner.

#github #git #opensource #beginners

5 min read

jzheng2017

Dec 9 '20

My first open source library

#java #opensource #webdev #programming

1 min read

Dec 9 '20

From a noob to an Open Source Contributor- My journey

#opensource #journey #hacktoberfest #python

2 min read

Nov 10 '20

React-Chrono crosses 2000 🌟 on Github, ver 1.7 released with support for rendering custom content

#react #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Vishal Narkhede

Dec 9 '20

maintainVisibleContentPosition prop for Android react-native

#reactnative #android #opensource

1 min read

Cynthia 🏳️‍🌈 Sanchez

Dec 9 '20

EOS icons: The journey from Idea to Product Hunt Launch

#opensource #design #python #opensuse

4 min read

JY @ DataMechanics

Dec 9 '20

How to Use our Free Open-Source Spark UI & Spark History Server + Spark Dashboard

#apachespark #monitoring #opensource #datascience

4 min read

Raul Piraces Alastuey

Dec 9 '20

Awesome console apps in C#

#console #dotnet #csharp #opensource

4 min read

Dec 8 '20

Github Universe 2020 is live now

#github #opensource

1 min read

bob.ts

Dec 8 '20

Making Regular Expressions Readable in JavaScript

#opensource #javascript #npm #regex

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 7 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.47

#opensource #aws

24 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

Dec 7 '20

Formal processes around open source management are more common, but it is still basically a free for all

#survey #opensource

4 min read

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