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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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Shobi

Apr 11 '19

I wrote a PHP Client for sonic, the autosuggestion engine, and now its official PHP client. Ask Me Anything 🤩

#php #sonic #sockets #opensource

2 min read

Utkarsh Talwar for XenoX

Apr 9 '19

What We Learned By Almost Failing Our Product Hunt Launch

#showdev #opensource #webdev #motivation

6 min read

Apr 8 '19

How to Make your First Open Source Contribution

#opensource #beginners #career

4 min read

Apr 10 '19

Hello World!! This is a Junior Contributor

#coding #contributing #community #opensource

1 min read

Apr 4 '19

Getting started with open-source Drone CI

#webdev #opensource #devops #beginners

3 min read

Apr 9 '19

Test Automation For Blockchain - How to improve development speed and code quality, Part 1

#blockchain #testing #javascript #opensource

10 min read

Apr 9 '19

Test Automation For Blockchain - How to improve development speed and code quality, Part 2

#blockchain #testing #javascript #opensource

12 min read

Apr 8 '19

Parallax, Cityscapes, Discover text | Module Monday 35

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Artyom Keydunov for Cube

Mar 28 '19

Cube.js, the Open Source Dashboard Framework: Ultimate Guide

#javascript #tutorial #react #opensource

9 min read

Krzysztof Żuraw

Apr 8 '19

Open sourcing tsconfig

#typescript #opensource #tsconfig

1 min read

Apr 5 '19

Make Featured Images Just Like The Renegade Coder

#showdev #opensource #python #github

3 min read

Florin Pop

Apr 7 '19

App-ideas Github Repository Update - Achievements, New Feature and More Apps

#coding #projects #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Apr 5 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Three Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

14 min read

saif ali

Apr 6 '19

Creating a simple mapper for java

#opensource #java

1 min read

Apr 4 '19

Stop limiting your open source library’s potential

#opensource #javascript #career

2 min read

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