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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 2 '19

Why you should be using Node-RED right now!

#javascript #node #opensource #ibmcloud

5 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jun 29 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource #reporecap

5 min read

Kyle Boe

Jul 1 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (July 1st edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #beginners

1 min read

Arekusandr

Jul 1 '19

Hacker Slides markdown slides builder

#showdev #opensource #reveal #productivity

1 min read

Jul 1 '19

Pro profile, Animated hero, Ex Machina nav | Module Monday 45

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Jun 24 '19

What If I Want My Website to Last for 100 Years?

#discuss #webdev #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jul 1 '19

Add custom icons to Vue Unicons

#vue #icons #githunt #opensource

1 min read

Jun 22 '19

Do you have your own Gatsby site? Let's brainstorm a dev.to cross-poster

#discuss #react #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Juan Herrera for Angular

Jun 24 '19

Why I chose Angular 🔧

#javascript #angular #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Maximo Guerrero

Jun 29 '19

Easy email dashboards with dashflow.io

#python #sql #opensource

3 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 17 '19

Project Benatar: Fending Off Data Black Holes

#meta #opensource #projectbenatar

6 min read

Jun 13 '19

Generate beautiful README in 10 seconds

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jijin P 👨‍💻🦄

Jun 28 '19

Let's create a Personal Website with Github and Medium or Dev.to Account.

#showdev #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Aaron Powell for Microsoft Azure

Jun 28 '19

A VS Code Extension for Managing Profiles

#showdev #vscode #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jun 25 '19

Roll Your Own Color Scheme in Windows Terminal

#terminal #windows #microsoft #opensource

2 min read

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