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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 12 '18

Jelly Fin: Contributor Update 9-12-2018

#jellyfin #opensource #react #reactnative

2 min read

Sep 10 '18

MySQL Editor in NodeJS ~ Part one

#mysql #node #learning #opensource

5 min read

Sep 14 '18

AlloyCI - A year since release

#elixir #opensource #motivation #career

5 min read

Sep 14 '18

How to Choose the Right Platform for Your Online Marketplace?

#marketplace #opensource #startup #webdev

3 min read

Sep 4 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (September 4 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Sep 10 '18

hyperConsole— Instantly load popular JS libraries into devTools and experiment.

#javascript #webdev #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Sep 13 '18

MySQL Editor in NodeJS ~ Part two

#mysql #node #learning #opensource

3 min read

Sep 7 '18

Adventures of a Hobbyist ~ Part seven

#routing #node #learning #opensource

2 min read

Guillaume Martigny

Sep 5 '18

Awesome projects under 1000 stars (1) - Badgen

#showdev #javascript #github #opensource

2 min read

Pedro Cruz

Sep 11 '18

Ideas for front-end project crazy think :D

#help #ideas #challenge #opensource

1 min read

Sep 13 '18

Workflow Wednesday - Background Music

#productivity #workflow #tools #opensource

1 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Sep 11 '18

Weekly Trending Repositories on GitHub

#opensource #github

11 min read

Sep 8 '18

The End of Assertion Gobbledygook

#ruby #testing #opensource

3 min read

Sep 7 '18

Make your voice heard - vote for the features you want in WordPress (aka, ClassicPress)

#wordpress #opensource #php

1 min read

Sep 3 '18

Why Javascript of all languages?

#discuss #javascript #development #opensource

2 min read

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