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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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Nov 23 '21

The Sacred Steps to Achieving Good Documentation

#discuss #writing #opensource #documentation

5 min read

Kai Oswald

Nov 24 '21

Complete CI/CD for Flutter Apps

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #flutter

2 min read

davidkohn88 for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Nov 24 '21

Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL using custom operators

#postgres #opensource #database #datascience

20 min read

davidkohn88 for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Nov 24 '21

How percentile approximation works (and why it's more useful than averages)

#postgres #datascience #opensource #database

33 min read

Nov 24 '21

Building A Text To Speech Converter For Beginners!

#javascript #beginners #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

Nov 24 '21

Join professionals from RedHat, Polypane & Researchers in Quantum Computing at Git Commit Show

#webdev #beginners #opensource #devops

2 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Nov 24 '21

PWA to APK Github Action

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #android

1 min read

Nov 24 '21

Why Conferences Can Be So Important For You, As A Developer.

#programming #gitcommitshow #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Shayki Abramczyk

Nov 24 '21

GitHub Action for building Maven project with Docker and push it Docker Hub

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

3 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 23 '21

Django Star Admin - Open-source / Bootstrap 5 / Docker / CookieCutter

#webdev #django #dashboards #opensource

3 min read

Suvraneel Bhuin

Nov 24 '21

Automated Self-assigns + Labeler + Contributors list

#actionshackathon21 #opensource #github #contributors

4 min read

Nov 23 '21

Tesla Cybertruck Concept (NextJS + ChakraUI + ThreeFiber)

#actionshackathon21 #opensource #github #beginners

1 min read

Ruheza, NS

Nov 21 '21

Contribute like a Pro. A guide for git-branching model (Part 1)

#git #opensource #agile #github

2 min read

Leo Ho

Nov 23 '21

I wrote a script to bring Chrome DevTools to Android

#opensource #webdev #programming #javascript

1 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

Nov 23 '21

Levelling as a Developer with Content Creation and Community Building #DevRel

#discuss #devrel #career #opensource

1 min read

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