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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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Peter Kim Frank for The DEV Team

Aug 28 '20

Get in on the action — GitHub Actions Hackathon reminder! ⏰

#actionshackathon #actions #opensource #github

1 min read

Sep 1 '20

🦄🚀 Make Your First Github Contribution.

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #github

2 min read

Cameron Miller for Tidelift

Sep 1 '20

World premiere: our new Cooking with Tidelift children’s book

#opensource

4 min read

Aug 27 '20

Accidental Leadership in Open Source

#opensource #leadership #community #sustainability

10 min read

Ayush Jain

Aug 30 '20

MLH Fellowship: My story

#opensource #mlhgrad #career

6 min read

Aayush Agarwal for CimpleC

Sep 1 '20

Getting Started with sim-C

#c #programming #compiler #opensource

2 min read

Aayush Agarwal for CimpleC

Sep 1 '20

Writing code in C? Simplify your life with sim-C

#c #programming #compiler #opensource

2 min read

Miguel de la Cruz for Mattermost

Sep 1 '20

A complete solution for installing Mattermost: Introducing Mattermost Omnibus

#opensource #mattermost #devops #selfhosted

3 min read

manish srivastava

Aug 31 '20

Docker Hub : Millions of images will be removed. Open Source teams to mostly hit.

#news #docker #devops #opensource

2 min read

👨‍💻 Perttu Lähteenlahti

Aug 31 '20

I made the React Native app I've been building for the last year open source

#opensource #reactnative #amplify

2 min read

Tony Diaz

Sep 1 '20

Github actions triggering Alexa notifications

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Aug 28 '20

Being a developer from home; never work in an office again

#wordpress #opensource #github

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Aug 31 '20

Tutorial: how to build a simple admin dashboard interface using Bootstrap 5

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #bootstrap

12 min read

Souparno Paul for GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur

Aug 30 '20

Flutter, Google's one-stop solution for Native Applications

#opensource #flutter #appdev #beginners

7 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 31 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 33

#aws #opensource

13 min read

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