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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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Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0 New Features: Middleware to Ecosystem Evolution

#dbms #shardingsphere #java #opensource

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dev.to staff for The DEV Team

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GitHub Actions Hackathon 2021 Help Thread

#help #actionshackathon #githubactions #opensource

1 min read

Minsu Kim

Nov 4 '21

Formatter & Linter for C#

#opensource

3 min read

Nov 14 '21

Release of Perl distribution of Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 1.8

#perl #opensource #release

3 min read

Zelcion The Dev

Nov 1 '21

How a single JSON file could become your entire code base

#javascript #node #productivity #opensource

3 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

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#opensource #beginners #programming #career

2 min read

Oleksii Trekhleb

Nov 13 '21

Top 33 JavaScript Projects on GitHub (November 2021)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #github

4 min read

Ovidiu Miu

Nov 13 '21

Let's build a list of real and alive open-source Angular projects.

#angular #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

Nomadev

Nov 9 '21

Top 5 Paid Open Source Programs for Student Developers

#javascript #opensource #github #codenewbie

4 min read

Khushal Jethava

Oct 15 '21

Advantages of Python

#python #programming #datascience #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 12 '21

React Flask Authentication - Free Sample

#react #flask #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Nov 13 '21

My first Hacktoberfest experience 2021 !!!

#hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource #git

1 min read

Imam Uddin

Nov 13 '21

Image To Text Conversion By Using Google Drive

#tutorial #webdev #opensource

4 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Nov 8 '21

Share your GitHub Actions Hackathon 2021 Updates!

#discuss #actionshackathon21 #githubactions #opensource

1 min read

Nov 13 '21

Mistake that every developer make!

#codenewbie #programming #opensource #career

2 min read

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