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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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Dec 29 '18

rrweb: record and replay the web

#githunt #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Jan 4 '19

Introducing Visual GraphQL Editor - draw your GraphQL schema

#showdev #graphql #opensource #githunt

1 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Dec 29 '18

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

4 min read

Dec 19 '18

Please don't commit .env

#security #git #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Ghost

Jan 3 '19

Does contributing to open-source companies increase the chance of a job there?

#opensource #jobs

1 min read

Jan 2 '19

Contributors wanted for 10secondsofcode

#contributorswanted #opensource #react #javascript

1 min read

Peter Kim Frank

Dec 28 '18

Baskup: creating an iMessage archive

#githunt #opensource #imessage

1 min read

Liana Felt (she/her)

Dec 28 '18

Notable: The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

#githunt #opensource #markdown #productivity

1 min read

Evan

Dec 28 '18

Releasing Quirk & Developing for Health

#showdev #react #ios #opensource

3 min read

Dan T.

Dec 27 '18

Odi - server-side framework

#javascript #node #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Michael Tharrington

Dec 28 '18

a helpful repo on community management & moderation

#githunt #opensource

1 min read

Dec 24 '18

How to contribute to open source?

#opensource #beginners

5 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

Dec 28 '18

Reek - Find your Code Smells!

#githunt #ruby #opensource

1 min read

Dec 29 '18

Normalize GraphQL response data

#githunt #opensource #javascript #graphql

1 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Dec 28 '18

Highlights for IssueHunt Fest 2018

#showdev #opensource #bounty

2 min read

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