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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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Domenic

Mar 26 '18

Android Studio strings.xml Parser

#android #productivity #opensource #github

2 min read

Mar 22 '18

AlloyCI Dev Diary — Part 2

#elixir #opensource #sideprojects #devdiary

6 min read

Mar 19 '18

Gem markdown_helper v1.0.0 Released

#ruby #markdown #opensource #github

1 min read

Angelica Gonzalez

Jan 17 '18

Automating new contributor issues with First Timers Bot

#opensource #github #beginners #javascript

2 min read

Mar 15 '18

Updated Ruby Gem markdown_helper

#markdown #ruby #github #opensource

1 min read

Alvaro Cavalcanti

Mar 6 '18

Ever wished for a pull request dependency check? You've got it.

#showdev #opensource #python #flask

3 min read

Mar 12 '18

My experience on submitting First theme- Kafal to WordPress.org

#opensource #wordpress #bestpractices #beginners

6 min read

Philly

Jan 8 '18

Wrap it up: Being a Good Citizen of Open Source by #devDiscuss

#opensource

7 min read

Lara Martín 👩‍💻

Nov 8 '17

Why I added licenses to my Udacity projects

#opensource #github #softwaredevelopment #androidappdev

5 min read

Meghan (she/her)

Mar 4 '18

What are some "hidden gem" GitHub repositories?

#discuss #github #opensource

1 min read

Mar 6 '18

A JavaScript Unit Test Generator for Your Editors

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Mar 1 '18

Milestone: 1K downloads!

#ruby #opensource #documentation #markdown

1 min read

Sqreen for Sqreen

Mar 1 '18

Context information storage for asyncio

#dev #python #opensource

10 min read

Mar 1 '18

AlloyCI Dev Diary - Part 1

#elixir #opensource #sideprojects #devdiary

3 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Mar 27 '18

Why these 5 myths about the Linux command-line are false

#opensource #howto #linux #list

6 min read

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