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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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May 12 '20

Bibi, what's down the rabbit hole 🐰

#gftwhackathon #opensource #webmonetization

3 min read

May 12 '20

OAuth 2.0 vs Session Management

#opensource #webdev #authentication #oauth

6 min read

Vishal Das (he/him) for GitHub Campus Experts

May 12 '20

A Year as a GitHub Campus Expert ✨

#github #community #devrel #opensource

4 min read

Michael Strutt for Potato

May 12 '20

GitLab Details Sidebar

#gitlab #opensource #workflow #chromeextension

5 min read

Sm0ke

May 8 '20

Flask Pixel UI-Kit - Accessibility First open-source Flask starter

#flask #a11y #opensource #appseed

3 min read

Cris 👨🏻‍💻

May 11 '20

Linux on MacBook Pro 2016 / 2017

#linux #unix #ubuntu #opensource

8 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 11 '20

AWS open sources new and updates - No. 19

#aws #opensource

10 min read

Octarine

May 11 '20

How to use open source kube-scan to find Kubernetes security risks

#kubernetes #security #devops #opensource

3 min read

Liam Hall

May 11 '20

Getting started with Vite, a no bundler DEV environment for Vue.js

#vue #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Huecki

May 8 '20

Montimark - Web Monetization for images with a Watermark

#gftwhackathon #webmonetization #opensource

1 min read

May 10 '20

I made an AI Chrome Extension to fight Fake News! - Bunyip

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

5 min read

May 10 '20

How to find the right sponsor for your opensource project

#opensource #javascript #vue #github

1 min read

Rishabh Gupta for XenoX

May 4 '20

Why YOU Should Contribute To Open-Source

#opensource #career #webdev #beginners

6 min read

May 9 '20

Ratpoison: Forget About Your Mouse

#linux #opensource

4 min read

Frank Boucher ☁ for Microsoft Azure

May 6 '20

Simplify your deployment with nested Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

#devops #azure #arm #opensource

5 min read

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