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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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Nov 13 '20

Whats your take on Webhooks?

#webdev #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Nov 14 '20

Build your own serverless subscriber list with Go and AWS

#showdev #opensource #go

7 min read

Mathieu Ferment

Nov 13 '20

Why should I contribute to Open Source?

#opensource #contribution

7 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Nov 12 '20

🦄 React Emoji Search - An OSS Project

#showdev #react #opensource #css

1 min read

Alan Lee

Nov 12 '20

How to Retrieve a Movie's Official Poster with Reshuffle Open Source

#javascript #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Icegotcha Fantasoxy

Nov 12 '20

My First Serious Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2020 #opensource

2 min read

Nov 10 '20

Hoppscotch Celebrating 25,000 GitHub Stars ✨

#showdev #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 12 '20

Bootstrap 5 Alpha 3 is here: a new accordion component, floating labels, and a new file input

#bootstrap #html #css #opensource

5 min read

Stan Lo

Nov 12 '20

Fixing issues in OSS is easier than you think

#opensource #ruby

7 min read

Anja

Nov 10 '20

What are your favorite open source software?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Dragodzs

Nov 12 '20

My first Hacktoberfest!

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2020 #firstpost #opensource

1 min read

Nov 10 '20

Declaring your business 👔 logic like React ⚛️

#javascript #react #npm #opensource

5 min read

Thiago Avelino for prestd

Nov 11 '20

pREST Celebrating 2,441 GitHub Stars ✨

#showdev #go #opensource #webdev

2 min read

The Apostrophe Team for Apostrophe

Nov 11 '20

Announcing Apostrophe 3 Alpha

#javascript #webdev #node #opensource

5 min read

Raphaël Pinson for Camptocamp Infrastructure Solutions

Nov 11 '20

A Simple Auth Proxy for EKS

#aws #kubernetes #devops #opensource

3 min read

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