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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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Benjamin Petetot for Zenika

Dec 10 '19

Understanding software licenses

#opensource #license #tutorial #beginners

5 min read

Dec 11 '19

Contributing back to Ansible — flexible secrets with some Sops

#ansible #opensource #mozilla #secrets

5 min read

Helad

Dec 10 '19

A Steady revenue stream from open source projects?

#opensource #monetization

1 min read

Dec 11 '19

Pope.cr: Micro templating engine for strings only. (Crystal version of Pope.js)

#crystal #opensource #strings #github

1 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 10 '19

AppSeed App Generator - Listed on Product Hunt

#appseed #opensource

1 min read

Mangabo Kolawole

Dec 8 '19

How to make your first contribution to an Open Source Project

#opensource #github #beginners

2 min read

Dec 6 '19

Awesome API tools

#api #apitools #opensource #testing

1 min read

Richard Schloss

Dec 4 '19

How I Learned GraphQL Thinking Like a 5 yr old

#graphql #apollo #opensource

5 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 3 '19

Admin Dashboards - Open-Source Admin Panels built with automation tools

#dashboards #opensource #devtools #appseed

4 min read

Dec 8 '19

How to Learn Python as a Beginner?

#education #python #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Christian Heilmann

Dec 9 '19

A tale of a typo - can we talk about making things easier for contributors?

#development #opensource #frustruations

3 min read

Dec 9 '19

Received swags for participating in Hacktoberfest 2019

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Anthony M.

Dec 9 '19

Launch Day

#writing #opensource #sideprojects #mentalhealth

3 min read

Madalin Valceleanu

Dec 8 '19

📚 Android Components Architecture in a Modular Word

#android #kotlin #architecture #opensource

9 min read

Dec 8 '19

Appwrite Backend Server Version 0.4 is Out. Learn What’s New

#opensource #javascript #webdev #serverless

4 min read

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