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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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Dinesh Pandiyan

May 27 '18

Render Browser Specific Content with React 🎉

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Aug 15 '18

Blog post: Release of Crypt::OpenSSL::X509 1.8.9

#opensource #contribution #perl

4 min read

Sanket Kumar Gautam

May 30 '18

Apparate

#opensource #github #productivity #python

4 min read

Osita Chibuike for Legobox

May 26 '18

Getting started with caddy web server

#beginners #devops #programming #opensource

6 min read

May 21 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 21 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

May 27 '18

A beginner trying for the first Open Source Project

#discuss #opensource #python #javascript

1 min read

Austin Spivey for Wia

May 28 '18

How to setup an Arduino UNO with ESP8266 and publish an event to Wia

#iot #arduino #opensource #wia

4 min read

Tryolabs

May 28 '18

Luminoth 0.1: Open source Computer Vision toolkit

#computervision #machinelearning #deeplearning #opensource

9 min read

Christian Vasquez

May 22 '18

What was your first ever contribution to Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #contributing

1 min read

May 27 '18

Gem markdown_helper Updated

#ruby #github #opensource #documentation

1 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

May 23 '18

How to Change Bootstrap Default Colour Theme: Without writing Code.

#bootstrap #howto #mobile #opensource

3 min read

May 12 '18

Git Submodules Revisited

#git #opensource #engineering

3 min read

May 7 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 7 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Apr 30 '19

Graph Data Structures Explained in JavaScript

#javascript #node #opensource #algorithms

13 min read

May 14 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 14 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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