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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 25 '19

Adding a little feature to the headless_chrome crate in Rust

#rust #testing #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Nov 25 '19

Baby's First Open Source Contribution

#opensource #firstyearincode #ruby #tdd

2 min read

Nov 24 '19

Distro Experience:Zorin 15 Lite,AntiX & MX Linux

#linux #opensource #productivity

5 min read

SMAmmar

Nov 23 '19

Python to React

#help #opensource #react #python

1 min read

Nov 23 '19

💡 LightBulb v2 released!

#showdev #productivity #opensource #dotnet

2 min read

Roelof Jan Elsinga

Nov 23 '19

Creating a documentation website for my open-source package Aloia CMS

#documentation #opensource #github #website

3 min read

Nov 23 '19

I created a React & Redux Boilerplate

#redux #react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Nov 20 '19

My DEV birthday gift for you: DEV.to Analytics!

#watercooler #birthday #opensource #showdev

5 min read

Carmine Zaccagnino

Nov 18 '19

Google's Flutter Framework Could Change Software Forever by Bridging Mobile, Desktop, Web and Embedded

#android #ios #opensource #dart

5 min read

Nov 22 '19

Introducing Playground - A Frontend Demonstration Component

#react #javascript #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

Shiraaz Moollatjie

Nov 21 '19

goluhn: A simple package for generating, calculating and verifying luhn numbers

#go #opensource #fintech

2 min read

Sardina Systems

Nov 21 '19

OpenStack can create a massive impact in the HPC users life with Sardina Systems

#openstak #opensource #hpc #kubernetes

1 min read

郭小铭

Nov 21 '19

Table component that supports both virtualized table and tree tables

#react #table #virtualized #opensource

3 min read

Johannes Lichtenberger

Nov 20 '19

Something similar to #Hacktoberfest for Supporting Open Source projects?

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Alexandre for SNOWCODES

Nov 20 '19

What's your github labels?

#github #management #opensource #productivity

1 min read

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