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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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Arsalan Khattak

Aug 11 '20

MLH Fellowship - My Experience

#mlhgrad #opensource

2 min read

Aug 11 '20

Announcing Juvet: Working towards a more familiar chat bot framework

#elixir #chatbots #opensource

5 min read

0xkniraj

Aug 11 '20

GSoC 20: Week 10

#gsoc #opensource #python

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Aug 11 '20

How to create a blog post carousel using Bootstrap 5

#bootstrap #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Aug 7 '20

My Journey as an MLH Fellow

#mlhgrad #opensource #career #github

5 min read

Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D for Microsoft Azure

Aug 10 '20

I'm attending the #WriteTheDocs PDX this year. Here's what it's about.

#opensource #documentation #virtualevents #a11y

4 min read

Syamkumar

Aug 10 '20

MongoDB Cluster Setup Centos

#mongodb #centos #opensource #linux

5 min read

Aug 9 '20

Attempts at my fifth pull request to Forem

#opensource #forem #beginners

4 min read

Roy

Aug 9 '20

Introducing Neu icons 🎉

#icons #svg #css #opensource

3 min read

Brian Douglas for GitHub

Aug 5 '20

Good first issues with Next.js

#github #opensource #react

1 min read

V. Rohan Rao for GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur

Aug 7 '20

sort("NODE") --> DENO

#opensource #webdev #node #deno

5 min read

Idris Rampurawala

Aug 6 '20

Flask Boilerplate - Structuring Flask App

#showdev #python #webdev #opensource

8 min read

EGEMEN

Aug 7 '20

Android VideoLayout Library

#android #opensource #videolayout #textureview

1 min read

Joy Winter

Aug 5 '20

3 Open Source Security Risks and How to Address Them: What You Need to Know

#devops #security #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Aug 6 '20

Get involved in Open Source - interview with WordPress

#github #opensource #wordpress

2 min read

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