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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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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Mar 20 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Three Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

10 min read

Mar 22 '19

Does it matter how the cryptographic keys stored?

#blockchain #opensource #security #cryptography

1 min read

Artyom Keydunov for Cube

Mar 21 '19

React Query Builder with Cube.js

#javascript #tutorial #react #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2 '19

Machine Learning With Python

#showdev #python #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Mar 18 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (March 18th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

John Papa for Microsoft Azure

Mar 12 '19

Is Your VS Code Extension Slow? Here's How to Speed it Up!

#webdev #vscode #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Artyom Keydunov for Cube

Mar 14 '19

Building an Analytics Dashboard with Node, Express, and Cube.js

#javascript #node #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

Mar 19 '19

Conway's Game Of Life with different rules

#javascript #automation #opensource #react

2 min read

Mar 18 '19

Chart.js, slick slider, team thumbnails | Module Monday 32

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Florin Pop

Mar 18 '19

App-ideas Github Repository Update - Tiers

#coding #projects #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Florin Pop

Mar 14 '19

App-ideas Github Repository

#coding #projects #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Alessio

Mar 17 '19

Allun.ga - Open Source URL shortner

#react #webdev #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Mar 18 '19

Android — Create Bitmap from a View

#android #utility #bitmap #opensource

3 min read

Pierre

Mar 15 '19

TOP 20 Python Github repositories in March'19

#python #github #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Petar G. Petrov

Mar 16 '19

Help Me Delete Your Tweets!

#showdev #opensource #python #privacy

2 min read

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