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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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Yoginth

Sep 24 '20

Feedback on my new product

#help #webdev #discuss #opensource

1 min read

Sep 23 '20

Beyond Semantic Versioning

#programming #opensource

4 min read

ryo-ma

Sep 21 '20

Update: 🏆 GitHub Profile Trophy / Add dynamically generated GitHub Trophy on your readme

#showdev #opensource #github #typescript

2 min read

Igor Pomaranski

Sep 23 '20

Simple games with Angular

#tetris #angular #learning #opensource

1 min read

Sep 22 '20

Why I built LibreLingo

#svelte #opensource #education #hacktoberfest

7 min read

Sep 23 '20

Contribute to and Open Source Python project - Create a Pull request to add the author field

#python #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 18 '20

Moment.js & The Selflessness of Developers

#javascript #opensource #motivation

3 min read

Sep 22 '20

GIT INIT (Part-2)

#git #opensource #beginners #github

4 min read

Vineet Kalghatgi

Sep 16 '20

Why I switched to Linux full time

#linux #opensource

5 min read

Andy Yang

Sep 22 '20

goURL release 0.1

#opensource

1 min read

Yoginth for Taskord

Sep 22 '20

Taskord Changelog - Sep 22

#showdev #opensource #productivity #changelog

1 min read

Sep 21 '20

The Sample Programs Repos Are Ready for Hacktoberfest 2020

#algorithms #opensource #github #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 21 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 36

#aws #opensource

16 min read

Christina Gorton

Sep 16 '20

I Joined DEV 🎉

#meta #career #opensource

2 min read

Sep 21 '20

Open-source Maintainers' Must Haves

#opensource #programming #github

11 min read

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