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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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Sep 10 '20

Open-Source Community Growth - how we've tripled it within 5 weeks

#opensource #github #machinelearning #javascript

1 min read

Maggie

Sep 9 '20

Everything You Need to Know About Outreachy’s Application Process

#outreachy #opensource #diversity #internship

3 min read

Sep 9 '20

What kind of open source license should I use for my project?

#help #opensource #license #question

1 min read

Tim Austin

Sep 9 '20

Writing an Elixir Code Analyzer (with metaprogramming magic 🧙)

#showdev #elixir #opensource #tutorial

12 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Sep 1 '20

Preptember — Start Getting Ready for Hacktoberfest This Month!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

4 min read

manish srivastava

Sep 7 '20

Create your own Operating Systems: From 0 to 1

#linux #devops #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Johannes Lichtenberger

Sep 8 '20

Best way to be able to spend more time on an Open Source project?

#discuss #help #opensource

1 min read

Supabase for Supabase

Sep 7 '20

Supabase: six months of building.

#postgres #javascript #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Prafulla Raichurkar

Sep 7 '20

Express Autodocs - A GitHub Action to generate documentation (Submission)

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 7 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 34

#aws #opensource

16 min read

Sep 6 '20

Some interesting Javascript libraries for image processing and computer vision.

#javascript #opensource #webdev #development

5 min read

Ahmed Gulab Khan

Sep 5 '20

What even is GitHub Codespaces?

#codespaces #github #opensource #vscode

2 min read

Sep 1 '20

The bane of every developer; spelling, casing, and random commas

#javascript #opensource #python #vue

2 min read

Arslan Tayliyev

Sep 4 '20

eCommerce App Development Complete Guide

#opensource #ecommerceapp #appdevelopment #gftwhackathon

11 min read

manish srivastava

Sep 3 '20

Create your own tiniest Heroku/CloudFoundry-like PaaS .

#devops #opensource #beginners #linux

1 min read

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