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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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Shi Han

Feb 18 '20

tfvar - A tool to help you write Terraform's variable definitions

#showdev #productivity #opensource #devops

3 min read

Thiago

Feb 18 '20

GOCDC and Postgres

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #go

4 min read

Jai Pradeesh for DeepSource

Feb 18 '20

Good First Issue - Make your first open-source contribution

#showdev #opensource

1 min read

Feb 16 '20

Inside the git folder

#git #opensource #productivity #beginners

5 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Feb 16 '20

A path for open source contributions

#opensource #github #opensauced

3 min read

Feb 17 '20

AsyncAPI for documentation and validation of event-driven architecture

#asyncapi #opensource #kafka #microservices

4 min read

Feb 17 '20

Ara issue of the week

#showdev #contributorswanted #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 17 '20

AWS open source news and updates #7 - networking, data analytics, security and more

#opensource #aws

6 min read

Pierre Bouillon

Feb 16 '20

📮 MqttTopicBuilder: build valid and verified MQTT topics

#showdev #csharp #mqtt #opensource

2 min read

Anton Goncharov

Feb 16 '20

How to Automate Cyber Defense Without Paying a Dime

#security #opensource #aws #devops

5 min read

Feb 16 '20

Linux Lite - Best Alternative to Windows 7 for Old PC

#linux #distro #review #opensource

3 min read

Roberto B.

Feb 16 '20

RESTful web service for geospatial data

#geospatial #restful #webservice #opensource

2 min read

Feb 16 '20

Making Your Code Beautiful

#opensource #javascript #npm

7 min read

Michael Bogan for Heroku

Feb 12 '20

Huginn: An Open-Source, Self-Hosted IFTTT

#opensource #productivity #webdev #tutorial

6 min read

Eka

Feb 11 '20

The most simple stack to create basic CRUD web app with users?

#help #discuss #opensource #javascript

3 min read

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