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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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Navendu Pottekkat

Nov 8 '21

Contributing to Documentation in Open-Source

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie #tutorial

4 min read

Nov 8 '21

Celebrating Open Source : Hacktoberfest, 2021

#hacktoberfest #opensource #coding

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 6 '21

Building a Tailwind CSS toggle/switch component

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial #webdev

3 min read

KeyDelivery Support for KeyDelivery

Nov 8 '21

Free All-in-one & Real-time Shipment Tracking API

#devops #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Oct 27 '21

Happy Hacktoberfest! 🎃 - Part 3

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github

2 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 6 '21

Flask Black Dashboard - Product Update

#webdev #flask #dashboards #opensource

3 min read

Nov 7 '21

How I completed my HacktoberFest 21 Journey

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Seif Lotfy

Nov 6 '21

Give your GitHub repository README.md some insightful eye-candy

#news #opensource #github #motivation

1 min read

Asim Aslam for M3O

Nov 6 '21

Why developers need an AWS alternative

#aws #m3o #cloud #opensource

5 min read

Alex Curtis-Slep | Looking for Remote Dev role

Nov 5 '21

Fall in Love with Open Source 🍁

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #programming

2 min read

Nov 6 '21

Use Static Analysis tools to my Static Site Generator

#opensource #javascript #git #vscode

4 min read

Nov 4 '21

How we got 2,000 stars in 4 days from a dev.to post

#news #opensource #javascript #node

2 min read

Anthony Viard for Entando

Nov 4 '21

How to Use Liquibase to Update the Schema of Your JHipster Application

#jhipster #liquibase #database #opensource

6 min read

Luigi Zaccagnini

Nov 5 '21

Using Static Analysis Tooling with Open Source!

#javascript #opensource #webdev #tutorial

5 min read

JLi

Nov 5 '21

Learning how to use Static Analysis tools

#opensource #cpp

3 min read

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