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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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Donald Fischer for Tidelift

May 19 '21

Thinking upstream about the White House cybersecurity executive order

#discuss #opensource #devops #news

8 min read

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot for Tauri

May 12 '21

Announcing Tauri Beta - More efficient crossplatform apps with better features

#tauri #opensource #rust #typescript

7 min read

Karthik Satchitanand for LitmusChaos

May 19 '21

LitmusChaos at Kubecon EU '21

#kubernetes #cloudnative #litmuschaos #opensource

7 min read

Marcin Michniewicz

May 19 '21

[Bonita UI Designer] creating Custom widget for BPMN Visualization

#opensource #processanalytics #digitalprocessautomation #bonitasoft

3 min read

Shai Almog for Codename One

May 18 '21

Build Cross-Platform Native Mobile Apps using Java/Kotlin for iOS, Android, Desktop & Web

#tutorial #java #opensource #kotlin

4 min read

May 15 '21

Open Source Best Practices

#opensource #webdev #computerscience #codenewbie

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

May 17 '21

AWS open source news and updates #68

#opensource #aws

14 min read

May 18 '21

Why I made my open source React component private by default: an Open Source story

#react #opensource #typescript #privacy

5 min read

Kostas Bariotis

May 17 '21

How I made a web app to create presentations

#opensource #webdev #javascript

3 min read

Sm0ke

May 13 '21

Bootstrap 5 Templates - Open-source and FREE

#webdev #bootstrap5 #opensource

4 min read

May 17 '21

Git and GitHub are the same?

#devops #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Mridul Bhandari for IBM Developer

May 17 '21

How to measure contributions & finance open source projects?

#opensource #ibm #redhat #callforcode

4 min read

May 5 '21

Introducing StewardX - Your automation buddy!

#showdev #opensource #devops #rust

2 min read

Leonidas Costas

May 16 '21

SEO and multilingual web app with distinct URLs

#react #webdev #opensource #seo

2 min read

Ceora Ford for CodeSandbox

May 6 '21

How to Make Your First Open Source Contribution

#opensource #beginners #coding

8 min read

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