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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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Ghost

Dec 3 '18

Failed startup turned successful open source project?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Nov 29 '18

Making 24 Pull Requests more inclusive for 2018

#challenge #opensource #christmas

3 min read

Ricardo N Feliciano for CircleCI

Dec 18 '18

Hey open source maintainers! Empower your contributors with continuous integration

#devops #opensource #cicd

4 min read

Konsole

Dec 2 '18

Resumable file upload in PHP: Handle large file uploads in an elegant way

#showdev #php #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Sebastiaan Deckers for Commons Host

Dec 3 '18

Amaravati, India 🇮🇳

#opensource #cdn #india

3 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Dec 3 '18

IssueHunt Fest 2018: Make open source sustainable

#showdev #opensource

2 min read

Nov 21 '18

How much popularity does a software project need?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Lawrence Lagerlof

Nov 27 '18

QuickAuthPHP – One script for web authentication. Multi-user. No database required.

#php #authentication #opensource #github

1 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Nov 22 '18

Thank you, DEV Contributors 🙏

#meta #opensource #gratitude

1 min read

Nov 27 '18

Aversion, upgrade projects that are using old language versions

#opensource #ruby #node #productivity

1 min read

Andrew Nesbitt for Octobox

Nov 25 '18

Untangle your GitHub Notifications with Octobox

#ruby #github #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Grzegorz Ziemonski

Nov 27 '18

My First Visual Studio Code Extension

#showdev #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Tal Bereznitskey

Nov 25 '18

So why did GitHub send me this T-shirt?

#github #tshirt #opensource

1 min read

Nov 23 '18

3 reasons why devs don’t contribute to open source. Discuss!

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

Nov 21 '18

Thank You, 10 Open Source Projects that Helped Build a Business

#webdev #opensource #ruby #rails

4 min read

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