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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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Ségolène Alquier

Nov 10 '20

How to reduce back-and-forths on a pull request ⚡️

#github #opensource #codenewbie

3 min read

Nov 11 '20

Reverse-engineer A No-code Website Builder

#webdev #opensource #programming #devjournal

3 min read

Bhawesh Kumar for Technocrats

Nov 7 '20

Open source tools for game development.

#gamedev #opensource #linux

3 min read

Nov 10 '20

My beef 🥩 with Javascript and ReactJS ⚛️

#javascript #react #codenewbie #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 9 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.43

#opensource #aws

18 min read

Nov 9 '20

Joy Of Hacktoberfest and Contribution to Open Source

#hacktoberfest #webdev #opensource #github

2 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Nov 9 '20

GitHub Docs are Open Source

#github #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Eevis

Nov 6 '20

Story of an accidental open source maintainer

#hacktoberfest #opensource #community

6 min read

VIMAL KUMAR for Web

Nov 9 '20

Master-Portfolio V2 what's new

#opensource #github #webdev #portfolio

1 min read

Nov 3 '20

How to start contributing to open source as a junior

#hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Madza

Nov 6 '20

Have you ever contributed to DEV?

#meta #opensource #motivation

1 min read

Nov 9 '20

Static Analysis Tooling: how three fancy words are my new best friends

#opensource #git #github #python

6 min read

Nov 8 '20

Cassette tapes, a pseudo degree, and open source software: an interview with Andrea Giammarchi

#opensource #javascript #webstandards #interview

10 min read

Nov 5 '20

A very simple tutorial of the Crystal programming language

#codenewbie #ruby #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Nov 2 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 is a Wrap!

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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