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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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Evan

Dec 10 '18

Request for Comments: Quirk, an Open Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy App

#showdev #opensource #react #ios

8 min read

Dec 15 '18

A Weird and Wonderful Trip through Ruby’s Standard Library

#ruby #scripting #fun #opensource

5 min read

Dec 10 '18

Animate CSS grid, Follow slider, Slick carousel & more | Module Monday 22

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Dec 17 '18

Bokeh effect, Reaction card, Hover directory & more | Module Monday 23

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Muhammad

Dec 15 '18

Publishing Packages On Pypi

#explainlikeimfive #python #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Dec 10 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Dec 10th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Yuki

Dec 11 '18

Is there anyone who is interested in a Chat based meetup project?

#discuss #contributorswanted #opensource #react

2 min read

Dec 10 '18

Storing data in Go

#go #database #programming #opensource

4 min read

Wajahat Karim 🇵🇰

Dec 14 '18

EasyFlipViewPager — The Flip Animations For Your ViewPager

#showdev #android #opensource #developer

9 min read

Julia Torrejón

Dec 13 '18

Have you seen the new "Very Important Pinned Issues" feature on Github?

#discuss #github #opensource #news

1 min read

Dec 7 '18

Gitote, two weeks after

#gitote #opensource #git

2 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Dec 12 '18

Weekly Trending Repositories on GitHub (Dec.02 ~ Dec.08)

#opensource #github

6 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Dec 6 '18

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Sasha Koss

Dec 6 '18

I pay $1 every hour I spend working on open-source

#opensource

3 min read

Dec 3 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Dec 3rd edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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