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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 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

Jun 15 '20

XMonad: Hackability, At a Cost

#linux #opensource #ubuntu

8 min read

Jun 16 '20

Kickstarting the Open-Source Culture in Your Company

#opensource #github #git #leadership

11 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 15 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 24

#aws #opensource

15 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Jun 15 '20

Software licensing: All about multi-licensing

#showdev #opensource #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

Ali Abbas

Jun 14 '20

Should DEV.to have a feature like Quora ?

#discuss #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Adrian Matei for Codever

Jun 15 '20

Simple IntelliJ plugin example to help me bookmark code

#productivity #programming #beginners #opensource

9 min read

Tieg Zaharia for Tidelift

Jun 11 '20

The state of package signing across package managers

#javascript #python #opensource #java

8 min read

Kirill Vasiltsov

Jun 13 '20

Contributing to Gatsby - Issue #21311

#javascript #opensource #gatsby #react

6 min read

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