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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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Jul 15 '20

My crazy launch. 33.000 visitors💥, No.1 on several platforms.

#showdev #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Bruno Vezoli for Rootstrap

Jul 16 '20

A Take on Empowering ActiveRecord

#rails #activerecord #opensource #sql

3 min read

Jul 18 '20

Raising my first pull request to Forem

#opensource #forem #beginners

3 min read

Jul 19 '20

Help needed: Open source react component

#help #contributorswanted #react #opensource

2 min read

Jul 18 '20

Install docker on RHEL 8

#tutorial #beginners #linux #opensource

2 min read

Jul 18 '20

Got a new badge on GitHub.

#github #opensource #javascript #react

1 min read

Ballcapz

Jul 18 '20

Install Spacemacs on Windows

#opensource #productivity

2 min read

Katia Lira

Jul 17 '20

La reformas necesarias para la PSF

#python #opensource

2 min read

Sonu Sharma 💙

Jul 18 '20

Fwitter android app v1.0.6 is released on play store

#flutter #dart #opensource #twitterclone

1 min read

Jul 17 '20

PHP 7 - Two useful operators, You Need to Know

#php #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Frank Boucher ☁

Jul 17 '20

Recap / Summary of the week #29

#showdev #devjournal #azure #opensource

1 min read

Krupa Suthar for SoluteLabs

Jul 6 '20

Top 8 Node.JS Frameworks to Look at in 2020

#node #javascript #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Rembrandt Reyes (He/Him)

Jul 17 '20

How do you Open-Source with a full-time job? and work on side projects?

#opensource

2 min read

Jul 8 '20

The “good first issue” myth

#thoughts #opensource #angular #react

4 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Jul 10 '20

🌟 Review my open source repository 🌟

#opensource #beginners #typescript #deno

1 min read

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