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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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Aug 15 '20

Build Notifications @ Slack using GitHub Notifications

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Aug 15 '20

Swipe: a free one page Bootstrap 5 template for mobile applications

#showdev #opensource #bootstrap #bootstrap5

2 min read

Michael Z

Aug 12 '20

GitHub Actions: Setting up CI for a JS/TS/Node project

#github #git #devops #opensource

3 min read

Toshimaru

Aug 15 '20

Assign pull request author automatically with GitHub Actions

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Aug 15 '20

Github Actions & Telegram Notification

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Aug 15 '20

How to Install GO?

#go #tutorial #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Saurav M H

Aug 11 '20

Going OpenSource - A dive into facebook's jest

#opensource #mlhgrad #javascript #career

11 min read

Michael Z

Aug 14 '20

Publish to NPM automatically with GitHub Actions

#github #git #devops #opensource

4 min read

Jorge Alberto Díaz Orozco (Akiel)

Aug 14 '20

A GitHub action to push messages to Rocket.Chat using credentials instead of webhooks

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Aug 14 '20

Good-first-issues: How to get contributors to your project

#contour #opensource #github #go

2 min read

Justin E. Samuels

Aug 14 '20

What is a Black-Owned Business: Episode 1 - Show Notes

#discuss #blackowned #entrepreneurship #opensource

7 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Aug 13 '20

Share your GitHub Actions Hackathon Updates!

#actionshackathon #githubactions #opensource #meta

1 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Aug 14 '20

Good first issues with dry-rb

#opensource #github #dryrb #ruby

1 min read

Aug 14 '20

How to DIG in Git: Best Practices

#git #opensource #productivity #tutorial

3 min read

Harsh Zalavadiya

Aug 14 '20

Automating package publishing to NPM

#actionshackathon #github #actions #opensource

3 min read

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