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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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Jun 20 '20

StretchShop - the fast & scalable e-business is growing up

#javascript #node #opensource

1 min read

Jul 10 '20

Check out my open-source project!

#privacy #github #opensource #php

1 min read

Remy Sharp

Jul 4 '20

"Share the knowledge for free" [blog]

#webdev #opensource

3 min read

Deva Dhana

Jul 5 '20

Open source software testing

#opensource #freetesting

1 min read

chandewardnyanesh

May 29 '20

Become an Open Source Contributor

#opensource #github #git

4 min read

Alexander Wende

Jun 27 '20

Open Source Funding Survey

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jan 20 '18

How to install LAMP server in Linux (Ubuntu)

#opensource #howto #linux

5 min read

Jun 15 '20

QuickTip: To Do CodeReview

#codequality #review #github #opensource

1 min read

Boris Modylevsky

Jul 11 '17

How to choose an open source project to contribute to?

#opensource #contributing #programming #career

3 min read

Jun 23 '20

Why open source matter for privacy analytics

#privacy #opensource

3 min read

Rubén Sospedra

May 20 '20

GitHub as a Service

#github #saas #serverless #opensource

4 min read

Ido Shamun for daily.dev

Jun 17 '20

🔥 What's Hot in Web Development? — Weekly Picks #132

#opensource #codenewbie #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Jake Dohm

May 18 '20

Defining "Done"

#projectmanagement #opensource #web

3 min read

May 20 '20

My first step to Android Dev

#devgrad2020 #octograd2020 #opensource

1 min read

Jun 16 '20

Open source + proprietary code structure

#discuss #opensource #help

1 min read

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