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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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Sep 26 '19

A series of fortunate events

#career #development #opensource #devjournal

5 min read

Sep 23 '19

Your last Pull Request

#discuss #github #opensource #programming

1 min read

Sep 25 '19

Virtual collaboration workspaces for teams, classrooms, and communities

#discuss #vscode #showdev #opensource

3 min read

Sep 25 '19

What is the first open source project that you contributed?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Sep 19 '19

That Ultimate Project

#discuss #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Steven Mercatante

Sep 17 '19

🎉 Announcing Gatsby Post Manager

#gatsby #tools #opensource

2 min read

Sep 16 '19

Does Your Workplace Encourage Open Source?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Sep 18 '19

Ornamentum | Reactive Angular Data Table

#angular #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Sep 16 '19

When to open source a new project?

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

wrogrammer

Sep 16 '19

Open-sourcing works-fine synonyms!

#help #opensource

1 min read

unbug

Sep 15 '19

Tutorial, books, videos, resources to help us learn and DIY Open Sources Robot.

#opensource

1 min read

Kai Oswald

Sep 12 '19

How to gain traffic for your open-source library

#opensource #tutorial

2 min read

circular firing squad captain

Sep 13 '19

Let My People Go: the Hg to Git evacuation process.

#opensource #github #bitbucket #mercurial

3 min read

GaneshMani

Sep 3 '19

I am Open-sourcing My Startup Idea

#showdev #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Peter Thaleikis 🍪

Sep 6 '19

Neat Side Projects No. 5

#privacy #seo #opensource #extensions

4 min read

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