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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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Johannes Lichtenberger

Nov 20 '19

Something similar to #Hacktoberfest for Supporting Open Source projects?

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Alexandre for SNOWCODES

Nov 20 '19

What's your github labels?

#github #management #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Oct 28 '19

How to write a kickass README

#opensource #documentation #github #beginners

5 min read

E.

Nov 20 '19

Making money from open source projects

#opensource #career

4 min read

Abhishek Gupta for Microsoft Azure

Nov 19 '19

How to connect your Dapr microservices using NATS

#showdev #opensource #tutorial #kubernetes

7 min read

lizziekardon for Pagely

Nov 19 '19

Ethics in Design & Technology and the Case for WordPress Governance

#opensource #wordpress #webdev

58 min read

Olle Pridiuksson

Nov 19 '19

An easy task to solve with a meta component in Vue

#showdev #vue #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Nov 19 '19

OTP Verification using Hash

#javascript #node #opensource #github

1 min read

Nov 19 '19

WordCloud

#saas #python #opensource

1 min read

Nov 18 '19

Sample Programs 100 Article Release

#showdev #hacktoberfest #github #opensource

7 min read

Kautilya Tripathi

Nov 18 '19

Learning K8s

#kubernetes #docker #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Nov 18 '19

I'm Gonna be Open w/ You: What I Learned at the All Things Open conference

#todayilearned #opensource

2 min read

Chuck Carpenter

Nov 18 '19

Shepherd 6.0: One Dependency, Smaller Bundle, and New Look!

#javascript #opensource

2 min read

Nov 16 '19

How contributing to open-source can improve the way you write code

#opensource #beginners #career #motivation

5 min read

Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Nov 15 '19

A Discussion of Open Source Culture

#discuss #opensource #culture

2 min read

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