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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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Jun 19 '20

When Is It Time To Kill Your Pet Project?

#javascript #react #life #opensource

5 min read

Benjamin E. Coe for Google Cloud

Jun 18 '20

How my team releases libraries

#javascript #node #opensource

6 min read

Max Kolyubyakin

Jun 18 '20

Automatic synchronization of Django services

#python #django #microservices #opensource

7 min read

Jun 19 '20

Try out Face Detection in under 5 Minutes!

#python #opencv #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Gautham Prakash

Jun 3 '20

Reasons why I switched to Linux. Full time!

#linux #opensource #webdev #codenewbie

7 min read

Manbir Singh Marwah

Jun 18 '20

OpenEDU: The Open Source Education Initiative 📚

#github #opensource #education

1 min read

Jun 16 '20

How to create GraphQL schema dynamically?

#graphql #java #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Jun 18 '20

Observability and Selenium

#testing #devops #opensource

3 min read

Jun 17 '20

Looking for opensource projects

#react #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Deepanshu Udhwani

Jun 18 '20

A list of Open-Source Programs to help everyone!!!

#discuss #opensource #gratitude

1 min read

May 26 '20

List of top Open Source alternatives to popular products.

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Jun 17 '20

Elide - Opinionated APIs for web & mobile

#showdev #opensource #graphql #java

2 min read

Aditya Naag for Salesforce Developers

Jun 17 '20

Accessing Salesforce from apps built with Lightning Web Components Open Source

#opensource #lwc

7 min read

Srinidhi

Jun 24 '20

Data Engineering Series #2: Cloud Services and FOSS in Data Engineer's world

#aws #opensource #datascience

4 min read

🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Jun 16 '20

Eligant restaurant website 🍣

#octograd2020 #html #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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