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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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TED Vortex (Teodor Eugen Duțulescu) for OpenSauced

Dec 7 '21

How to lint PRs and welcome contributors using GitHub Actions

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

2 min read

C Vamshi Krishna

Dec 18 '21

Download spotify music for no cost!

#python #opensource #spotify

1 min read

Nov 27 '21

Start contributing to Opensource as a web dev beginner

#webdev #beginners #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Nomadev

Nov 20 '21

Top 10 Sites to find Remote Developer Jobs

#javascript #python #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Jean-Phi Baconnais for Zenika

Dec 6 '21

Comment remercier ses contributeurs sur GitHub ?

#githunt #hacktoberfest #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Dec 4 '21

GitHub Actions Workflow for Ultimate Laziness

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

10 min read

Dec 5 '21

Easily share your Stackoverflow's profile on your README

#opensource #javascript #stackoverflow #readme

2 min read

Nir Adler

Dec 5 '21

Policyer Action

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #policyer

3 min read

orkes

Dec 5 '21

Go: Netflix Conductor Worker

#microservices #go #opensource

1 min read

Teoman Yalçınöz for YUSIBER

Dec 5 '21

OSINT Nedir?

#cybersecurity #opensource #osint

4 min read

Sm0ke

Dec 4 '21

CoreUI - Open-Source Starters

#webdev #coreui #opensource

2 min read

Jones Zachariah Noel for AWS Community ASEAN

Dec 4 '21

Using GitHub actions - Deploy to AWS & SNS Publish

#actionshackathon21 #github #aws #opensource

3 min read

Md. Fahim Bin Amin

Dec 4 '21

Awesome Markdown 🎉

#markdown #opensource #programming

4 min read

Dec 3 '21

You may want to consider this when using docker images and Dockerfiles

#docker #devops #opensource #bestpractices

7 min read

Dec 4 '21

How to contribute to open source: a guide for Rails beginners

#opensource #rails #tutorial

4 min read

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