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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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Hugo Di Francesco

Nov 7 '18

Progress and roadblocks: a journey into open-source

#showdev #javascript #opensource #sequelize

6 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Nov 8 '18

Weekly Trending Repositories on GitHub (Oct.28 to Nov.03)

#opensource #github

6 min read

Oct 31 '18

Did you earn your Hacktoberfest t-shirt?

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 28 '18

IBM is acquiring Red Hat

#news #discuss #opensource #linux

1 min read

Nov 5 '18

5 Tips for Writing Good Documentation

#documentation #opensource #orchid

4 min read

Nov 1 '18

Drupal is a pretty big deal 🎙

#php #podcast #opensource #drupal

1 min read

Avi Aryan

Nov 5 '18

Looking for cool Pull Requests for Utility Bash Scripts

#github #opensource

1 min read

Joe Zack

Nov 5 '18

Dev Podcasts: 2018-10-28 to 2018-11-04

#podcast #opensource

11 min read

Raed Yak

Nov 6 '18

How to use Senzill-Pagination to create a quick jQuery pagination

#javascript #git #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Shan Khan

Nov 4 '18

Settings Sync Paid Issues - Fix & Earn - Nov 18

#opensource #typescript #vscode #contributorswanted

1 min read

Nov 2 '18

Getting an Open Source Projects Off the Ground

#discuss #opensource #javascript #vue

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 29 '18

Learn Code from Us: Developer Thread

#opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Donald Fischer for Tidelift

Oct 31 '18

Open source creators: Red Hat got $34 billion and you got $0. Here's why.

#news #opensource #linux #technology

4 min read

Oct 29 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (October 29th edition)

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Oct 29 '18

Treeker - fake JSX generator 🤖

#showdev #opensource #react #testing

1 min read

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