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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 16 '19

Your First Open-Source Pull Request: a Walkthrough

#beginners #opensource #github #tutorial

4 min read

Zak Henry

Jun 20 '19

Ensuring accuracy of README code snippets

#readme #opensource #markdown #codeblocks

3 min read

Jun 22 '19

Python Checklist: Publishing a package to PyPi

#python #productivity #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Christopher Kade

Jun 16 '19

I created a .gitignore command-line generator !

#showdev #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Jun 22 '19

Installing yay on Arch Linux

#linux #archlinux #opensource

1 min read

Jun 23 '19

My personal experience with Solus

#linux #opensource

6 min read

Fanny

Jun 22 '19

What i've learned contributing for firefox dev tools

#opensource #firefox #mozilla #contributors

7 min read

Jun 18 '19

Anyone needing help in open source projects?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jun 20 '19

Principled Machine Learning: Practices and Tools for Efficient Collaboration

#machinelearning #opensource #ai #python

12 min read

Sm0ke

Jun 21 '19

Admin-Dashboards.com - goes open source

#opensource #dashboards #appseed

1 min read

Jun 20 '19

Send slack messages with Java in 5 minutes

#opensource #java #devops #slack

2 min read

Jun 21 '19

My first open source project

#opensource #php

2 min read

Mikoyoarts

Jun 20 '19

PHP Decision Making/Conditional Statements

#webdev #opensource #php #beginners

3 min read

Antonio

Jun 19 '19

GSoC 2019!

#gsoc #perl6 #opensource

3 min read

Jun 11 '19

Introducing my new project CSSWand!

#react #javascript #css #opensource

1 min read

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