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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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Martin Beierling-Mutz

Dec 30 '18

Overview of JSX components and prop usage with "jsx-info"

#githunt #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Florimond Manca for Bocadillo

Dec 23 '18

How I Built A Python Web Framework And Became An Open Source Maintainer

#showdev #opensource #python #webdev

17 min read

林子篆

Dec 29 '18

A lightweight web framework for Go

#showdev #go #opensource

1 min read

Dec 5 '18

How freeCodeCamp.org uses the JAMstack + a single API server to help millions of people learn to code every month

#webdev #javascript #opensource #devops

3 min read

Jae Park

Dec 28 '18

What are your problems or issues with developing in React?

#react #opensource #javascript #devops

1 min read

Dec 17 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Dec 17th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Dec 19 '18

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Two Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

5 min read

Dec 19 '18

The forges behind Netflix, LinkedIn and Co.

#discuss #opensource #technology

2 min read

Ju

Dec 22 '18

EnqueueZero Techshack 2018-51

#enqueuezero #kubernetes #opensource #cnab

12 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Dec 16 '18

An URL Shortener Which Can Be Even Hosted on GitHub Pages with Help Of jsonstore.io : FossURL

#showdev #opensource #javascript #talk

2 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Dec 20 '18

Firefox Add-on to Turn On Dev.to's Night Mode 🔥🔥

#showdev #firefox #meta #opensource

1 min read

Randy

Dec 20 '18

Generate Project Logo with Google Fonts

#javascript #opensource #react

1 min read

Vinicius Brasil

Jan 13 '19

How to Land a Job Using Open Source

#opensource #career

5 min read

Evan

Dec 10 '18

Request for Comments: Quirk, an Open Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy App

#showdev #opensource #react #ios

8 min read

Dec 15 '18

A Weird and Wonderful Trip through Ruby’s Standard Library

#ruby #scripting #fun #opensource

5 min read

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