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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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Dec 15 '17

Generate email list automatically with automaildoc

#showdev #ruby #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Idrees Dargahwala

Dec 17 '17

functions.js

#showdev #javascript #npm #opensource

1 min read

Monica Granbois

Dec 14 '17

Thoughts on receiving my first pull request

#opensource #github

3 min read

Ligin Vellakkad

Dec 14 '17

Skimming through a Book

#opensource #linux #tutorial

3 min read

Dec 12 '17

Introduction to Google Code-In

#code #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Dec 4 '17

Pull Requests: a simple workflow

#git #github #contributing #opensource

2 min read

Dec 7 '17

Joining Open Source Project -- And Learning a New Language

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Douglas R Andreani

Nov 30 '17

But, what the heck is Linux?

#linux #workflow #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Paul

Nov 29 '17

You never know how someone will use your app

#opensource

2 min read

Stefan Smiljkovic

Nov 26 '17

I open sourced Wireflow.co, old & dusty side project [read story]

#opensource #javascript #meteor #fabricjs

2 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jan 17 '18

How to install Ubuntu software (.deb) package from the command line.

#opensource #howto #linux

2 min read

Oct 27 '17

What are your UNIX pipeline commands that saved you from lot of coding/time?

#discuss #linux #opensource #tips

1 min read

kelseyevans for Datawire

Nov 8 '17

Fast development workflow with Docker and Kubernetes

#tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Nov 6 '17

What do you think of Open Source Sustainability?

#discuss #opensource #sustainability

1 min read

Leonardo Cardoso

Nov 3 '17

Free courses about programming - Project

#showdev #opensource #project #feedback

1 min read

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