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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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Jul 11 '19

5 Vue tips for React developers

#javascript #beginners #career #opensource

8 min read

Juha-Matti Santala

Jul 9 '19

My first npm package: ptcgo-parser

#npm #library #learning #opensource

3 min read

Nik Poltoratsky

Jul 10 '19

How to deal with GitHub spambots

#github #opensource #security

3 min read

Joel Hans

Jul 10 '19

How to inspire exceptional contributions to your open-source project

#opensource #contributions

11 min read

Jul 10 '19

The best way to securely manage user sessions

#webdev #javascript #authentication #opensource

6 min read

Francesco Leardini

Jul 10 '19

🎉 The state of CSS in 2019 🎉

#css #opensource #design #sotwsurvey

1 min read

🦁 Yvonnick FRIN for Zenika

Jul 9 '19

Open source at Zenika

#opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 26 '19

Introducing a New Initiative: IRL.DEV

#meta #eventsinyourcity #irl #opensource

2 min read

Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Jul 7 '19

CriCLI is here! Any Cricket Fans in the House? 👀🏏

#showdev #opensource #devjournal #webdev

3 min read

Jul 8 '19

Animated navbar, Bold fader, Slat footer | Module Monday 46

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Antonio

Jul 8 '19

GSoC report. Week 6

#opensource #perl6 #gsoc

2 min read

Julia Biro for Vonage

Jul 7 '19

Getting Started with Ngrok in Node-RED

#showdev #opensource #ngrok #nodered

5 min read

Federico Kauffman

Jul 3 '19

Translating Vue: Why internationalizing documentation actually matters?

#vue #opensource #documentation #internationalization

3 min read

Paramanantham Harrison

Jul 3 '19

Maintaining centralized documentation using Docusaurus

#showdev #webdev #documentation #opensource

1 min read

Jul 2 '19

A language for data flow and analysis

#showdev #python #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

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