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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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Apr 27 '20

How to Build a Dev.to API Client Library in JS

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 27 '20

AWS open source news and updates - Instalment No. 17

#aws #opensource

11 min read

Apr 26 '20

Pokedex: Gotta Search'em All

#showdev #react #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Apr 22 '20

Today is Earth Day; Devs can have an impact

#discuss #environmentalism #opensource #earthday

3 min read

Swastik Baranwal

Apr 27 '20

Over 100 PRs on Github

#showdev #git #github #opensource

1 min read

Andrew Lee

Apr 27 '20

Navigating Dev.to's Code on GitHub

#rails #opensource #webdev #beginners

2 min read

Nikki

Apr 26 '20

4 Fast and Easy CSS Tools to Help You Design Your Website

#css #frontend #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Michael Tharrington

Apr 22 '20

Any conservation foundations or initiatives that you'd recommend others look into?

#watercooler #opensource #discuss #earthday

1 min read

Apr 25 '20

Var, Const, Let declaration and initialization 💻🚀

#javascript #node #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Thomas De Moor for X-Team

Apr 28 '20

How to Contribute to Open Source Projects

#codenewbie #opensource #career #beginners

4 min read

dennislwm

Apr 25 '20

Tutorial: Learn Terraform and Deploy a Jitsi Video Conference Server in 4 GIF Steps

#devops #opensource #tutorial #webrtc

8 min read

@lukeocodes 🕹👨‍💻

Apr 23 '20

The Ultimate `npm run dev`

#showdev #node #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Tania Allard for Microsoft Azure

Apr 24 '20

10 top tips for reproducible Machine Learning

#machinelearning #opensource #reproducibility #aiapril

8 min read

AD

May 1 '20

Let's try to scale an API

#javascript #opensource #node #redis

5 min read

Michael Tharrington

Apr 22 '20

Got any tips for folks looking to live Earth consciously?

#watercooler #opensource #discuss #earthday

1 min read

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