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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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Jan 8 '20

The story of a Compound Timer

#react #opensource #javascript #webdev

2 min read

C++Love

Jan 8 '20

A basic but real Lua Interpreter in C#

#showdev #csharp #opensource

1 min read

JeB

Jan 5 '20

Owning an Open Source Project: Part 1

#opensource #github

6 min read

Rintagi

Jan 7 '20

Low Code Development: What to look forward to in 2020

#lowcodedevelopment #opensource #design

3 min read

Alessandro Pio Ardizio

Jan 4 '20

Open source project feedbacks

#opensource #github #githunt #node

1 min read

Jan 4 '20

Tips for Building Frontend AOT Angular Apps for Distribution

#discuss #angular #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Hila Fish

Jan 5 '20

Script-Server: The Open Source Tool Everyone Should Use (Or at Least Know About)

#opensource #script #automation #devops

5 min read

Dec 2 '19

Minor Follow-up on Hacktoberfest 2019

#opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Freek Van der Herten

Jan 2 '20

★ Today we hit 10 million PHP package downloads

#php #opensource

2 min read

S1nus

Jan 4 '20

The Penguin, the Blowfish, and the Demon.

#linux #opensource #computerscience

4 min read

SMAmmar

Jan 2 '20

Free to use Portfolio

#help #opensource #design #contributorswanted

1 min read

Feb 10 '18

Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver

#opensource #education #educationtechnology #mathematics

11 min read

Bimochan Shrestha

Dec 30 '19

HacktOverFest

#hacktoberfest #stickers #opensource #macos

1 min read

Dec 29 '19

5 invaluable learning methods for programmers 👩‍💻

#learning #onlinecourses #opensource #blogging

6 min read

Ryan

Dec 24 '19

The Colorful Julia Twitter Bot

#showdev #python #opensource

1 min read

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