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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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Patryk Rzucidło

Aug 29 '20

I present my Github Profile

#showdev #github #opensource

1 min read

Aug 27 '20

Deploy React App to Heroku using Github Actions!

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #react

2 min read

Jimmy

Aug 29 '20

JIM'S definitive guide to using GNU-NANO

#linux #opensource #nano #terminal

3 min read

Mert ÇELEN for Liman

Aug 29 '20

Eklenti Yayınlama

#liman #linux #management #opensource

2 min read

Mert ÇELEN for Liman

Aug 29 '20

Eklenti Geliştirme Ortamı Kurulumu

#liman #linux #management #opensource

3 min read

0xkniraj

Aug 29 '20

CVE Binary Tool: GSoC Final Report

#gsoc #python #security #opensource

6 min read

Aug 10 '20

How I became a senior javascript developer with personal projects

#javascript #career #opensource

4 min read

Adrian Hornsby for AWS

Aug 25 '20

Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering

#aws #opensource #devops #tutorial

13 min read

Aug 28 '20

How I improved during the MLH Fellowship

#mlhgrad #opensource #reactnative

5 min read

Thai Pangsakulyanont

Aug 27 '20

Maybe this useless workflow isn’t so useless after all?

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Aug 24 '20

Three Cheers for the MLH Fellowship Graduates!

#mlhgrad #meta #opensource #github

3 min read

Navendu Pottekkat

Aug 25 '20

How we made it to #1 Trending repository in GitHub

#javascript #opensource #github #webdev

2 min read

Kengo TODA

Aug 28 '20

New GitHub Action to set up docker-compose

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #dockercompose

1 min read

Sm0ke

Aug 23 '20

Free React Dashboard - Material Dashboard Design

#react #dashboards #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Aug 26 '20

How to DEV: Tips I've found in Forem repository

#meta #writing #opensource

3 min read

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