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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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Apr 29 '19

Flex grid, Responsive table, About me | Module Monday 37

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Robson Junior for Call Us What You Want

Apr 29 '19

Using spotify-web-sdk to handle requests to the Spotify Web API

#showdev #react #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Apr 29 '19

Using SuperGloo to install Istio and route traffic

#beginners #opensource #istio #kubernetes

6 min read

Apr 25 '19

The Challenges of Building Own MacOS App

#productivity #mac #producthunt #opensource

4 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Apr 29 '19

Reaching out, WASM help. Embedding Lua.

#help #webassembly #lua #opensource

2 min read

Apr 28 '19

Introducing the open source developer podcast

#showdev #opensource #podcast

1 min read

Max Ong Zong Bao

Apr 27 '19

Serving Gifs With Discord Bot

#showdev #python #tutorial #opensource

13 min read

Donald Fischer for Tidelift

Apr 25 '19

The closed source sustainability crisis

#news #opensource #technology #programming

8 min read

Apr 17 '19

Thoughts on migrating to TypeScript and improving the overall quality of the frontend DEV codebase

#javascript #typescript #meta #opensource

2 min read

EdOverflow 🐸 for security.txt

May 8 '19

“CI Knew There Would Be Bugs Here” — Exploring Continuous Integration Services as a Bug Bounty Hunter

#security #webdev #github #opensource

9 min read

Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Apr 23 '19

I am now a Google Developers Expert in Web Technologies!

#google #gde #googledevexperts #opensource

4 min read

Christoph Wurst

Apr 25 '19

Detecting Suspicious Nextcloud Logins

#nextcloud #machinelearning #opensource #security

6 min read

Apr 20 '19

Fizz Buzz in Every Language

#challenge #polyglot #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Apr 22 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Two Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

11 min read

Apr 15 '19

My 🔥 First Experience Attending TC39

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tc39

7 min read

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