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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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Sep 8 '18

ClassicPress: A call for developer volunteers

#wordpress #opensource #php

1 min read

Sep 3 '18

Module Monday 11: Scroll magic, Multi-image upload, Subscribe section & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Sep 3 '18

My first frustration-free OpenSource Pull Request

#opensource #beginnerfriendly #rails

1 min read

Sep 5 '18

Jelly Fin: Badges? Yes, we have badges.

#jellyfin #cicd #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 3 '18

What happens when you submit an article?

#opensource #ruby #javascript #rails

7 min read

Sep 7 '18

Shall we see what Hacker News thinks about ClassicPress?

#wordpress #opensource #php

1 min read

Alejandro Bonilla

Sep 4 '18

List of Open-Source Software for Business, you and me

#opensource #business #software

1 min read

Swapnil Agarwal

Sep 5 '18

🐬 Swag for Dev #4 — DigitalOcean’s Sammy stickers!

#programming #beginners #opensource #tips

1 min read

Greg Lind

Sep 6 '18

The Problem with Community Editions and Open Source Licenses

#healthydebate #opensource #career #licenses

1 min read

Ramiro for Auth0

Sep 6 '18

Laravel 5.7 Release: What's New? 10 Features To Try

#laravel #php #coding #opensource

1 min read

Sep 2 '18

GoLang School IS LIVE

#showdev #go #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Stanislav(Stas) Katkov

Sep 3 '18

Phoenix reborn - open source crypto-exchange Peatio

#opensource #crypto #exchange #ruby

5 min read

Oleksii Trekhleb

Aug 29 '18

New Playground and Cheatsheet for Learning Python

#python #opensource #programming #webdev

5 min read

Doni

Aug 27 '18

How do you make your portfolio/GitHub profile standout?

#discuss #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Aug 8 '18

dev.to is now open source

#meta #opensource

4 min read

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