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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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Netanel Mohoni for xs:code

Jun 3 '20

3 Principles to Speed Up Your Development Process with Open Source

#opensource #github #vue #startup

3 min read

Mohamed Abd El-Azeem

Jun 24 '17

My First Open-Source Tinkering - On Code Refactoring

#ruby #opensource #refactoring #faker

9 min read

Mayank Raj

May 20 '20

My Journey till #2020, 1 Step at a Time 🥽

#devgrad2020 #octograd2020 #githubsdp #opensource

3 min read

Shakshy Seth for DeepSource

May 10 '20

Spotlight Story: Carlos Becker, Creator of GoReleaser

#opensource #go

2 min read

Moshe Uminer for SirixDB

May 6 '20

pysirix Alpha Release

#python #database #opensource

1 min read

Henrik Sommerfeld

May 4 '20

The Grass is Greener on the Other Side

#career #opensource #learning #motivation

4 min read

May 2 '20

A tour to Git Commit Showcases

#techtalks #git #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Cinnamon

Jun 2 '20

Heard about Vanilla by Cinnamon yet?

#opensource #gftwhackathon #webmonetization

3 min read

Cinnamon

Jun 1 '20

Vanilla by Cinnamon

#gftwhackathon #opensource #webmonetization

2 min read

Fluttershy

May 23 '20

My first open-source project: The Messaging Mediator

#opensource #php #ddd

1 min read

Jess Lee

Jun 7 '17

Open Source Resources for Beginners

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

if me

Jun 13 '17

Announcing if-me.org inÂ Spanish

#opensource #mentalhealth #i18n #rails

7 min read

Marion Schleifer for Hasura

Apr 27 '20

OSS @Hasura: April Digest

#hasura #graphql #opensource #contributing

3 min read

May 24 '20

THE WORLD RUNS ON OPEN-SOURCE, BUT WHO’S PAYING FOR GAS?

#opensource #github #vue #javascript

4 min read

Kyle Lobo

May 28 '20

GitHub README templates & tips on writing high-quality documentation

#writing #opensource #tutorial #beginners

1 min read

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