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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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Jan 6 '21

New VScode extension - connecting developers with the OSS community to solve code issues in real-time

#vscode #opensource #100daysofcode #vue

1 min read

Hillary Nyakundi

Jan 26 '21

How To Get Started With Open Source Project Contribution

#opensource #git #programming #devops

2 min read

Jan 23 '21

Git Setup for OpenSource/Public Development

#git #github #opensource

3 min read

Fum

Jan 26 '21

A beginner friendly guide to making your first open source contribution

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #github

9 min read

Jeremy Ward 😎🤓

Jan 25 '21

Want to crosspost to dev.to? There's a GitHub action for that.

#typescript #github #opensource #actions

4 min read

Jan 26 '21

Make bulk changes over multiple repositories

#github #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 25 '21

AWS open source news and updates #53

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Alan Lee

Jan 25 '21

Sync Github Issues with Asana Board Tasks

#opensource #reshuffle #github #asana

6 min read

Jan 25 '21

Transitioning From DevOps to AppOps

#devops #kubernetes #opensource #cloudnative

6 min read

Jan 25 '21

Debian maintainer from zero to hero

#debian #packaging #opensource

4 min read

Ryan Perry

Jan 26 '21

Debug Performance issues in Python with Pyroscope (OSS)

#opensource #python #performance #monitoring

3 min read

Maasa Kono

Jan 24 '21

Git and GitHub

#git #github #opensource #programming

6 min read

Jan 24 '21

Docker high disk space usage 💾 📈

#docker #ubuntu #opensource #raspberrypi

1 min read

Henry Boisdequin

Jan 24 '21

Weekly Update #3 - 24th Jan 2021

#devjournal #rust #opensource #git

2 min read

Madza

Jan 19 '21

Have you ever regretted going open-source?

#watercooler #opensource

1 min read

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