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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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user

Sep 18 '20

Why you should learn Git

#git #github #codenewbie #opensource

2 min read

Johannes Lichtenberger

Sep 18 '20

Help to build an evolutionary, accumulate-only Database System

#hacktoberfest #opensource #database

1 min read

Abhishek Sisodiya

Sep 18 '20

Get GitHub CLI in WSL2

#github #opensource #productivity #wsl

1 min read

Sep 18 '20

ZimCart Laravel Free ecommerce (Don't Forget To Star It On Github)

#laravel #ecommmerce #opensource #php

1 min read

Amber 🏳️‍🌈

Sep 18 '20

My first (real) open source contribution

#opensource #github #git

1 min read

Sep 17 '20

GitHub Actions Hackathon: json to html table

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Surajv

Sep 18 '20

5 mistakes that can be avoided as a beginner in FOSS contribution!

#opensource #beginners #computerscience #github

4 min read

Sep 17 '20

Github CLI 1.0 released 🎉

#news #github #opensource

2 min read

Sep 14 '20

How to contribute to open source without compromising your mental health and work-life balance

#hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie #beginners

3 min read

Sep 16 '20

I built a community platform in 7 days

#webdev #opensource #ruby #rails

6 min read

Enrique Benitez 🤙

Sep 18 '20

Warm Welcome Action 🤗

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 18 '20

Community GitHub Action that welcomes and logs stats from the community

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Uriell

Sep 18 '20

Firebase Action + Workflow for CI/CD!

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #firebase

1 min read

Julius Pedersen

Sep 18 '20

The Gatekeeper, OAuth2 OIDC authentication handling as a microservice

#oauth2 #oidc #opensource #express

3 min read

Sep 18 '20

Quick Release Creator - GitHub Action

#actionshackathon #opensource #github #workflow

2 min read

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