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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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Fridolín Pokorný

Nov 7 '20

How to beat Python’s pip: Reinforcement learning-based dependency resolution

#python #machinelearning #datascience #opensource

5 min read

Nov 7 '20

How APIs work ?

#webdev #api #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Alan Lee

Nov 6 '20

Tracking Twitter mentions with Monday.com

#javascript #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Nov 2 '20

DevOps Tools Every Engineer Should Know

#devops #opensource #ansible

5 min read

Albiona for Webiny

Nov 6 '20

What is Commercial Open Source Software

#serverless #commercial #opensource #headlesscms

5 min read

Nov 4 '20

NextJS V10 | 📝 Highlighting the good, great and awesome updates

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

4 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Nov 5 '20

Vue Stripe Checkout; sometimes you need to learn something because you need to

#vue #javascript #opensource #github

2 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Nov 2 '20

Hacktoberfest Final Week — Thank you to our Contributors on Forem ❤️

#opensource #gratitude #meta #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Nov 4 '20

Tips for getting your Pull Request reviewed on GitHub

#opensource #github

5 min read

John Fay

Nov 5 '20

Catching up a forked repo and contributing to open source

#opensource #git #github #typescript

4 min read

Udi Talias for daily.dev

Nov 4 '20

How I built my markdown badges service using Injex

#typescript #node #express #opensource

10 min read

Supabase for Supabase

Nov 3 '20

Supabase: eight months of building.

#supabase #postgres #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Oct 6 '20

Exploiting Github Actions

#ruby #github #devops #opensource

3 min read

Brian Douglas for GitHub

Nov 4 '20

Building a text editor, like it's 1999, Remirror

#opensource #react

1 min read

Oct 24 '20

What Motivates Open Source Contributions?

#opensource #business

2 min read

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