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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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Tony Diaz

Sep 1 '20

Github actions triggering Alexa notifications

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Aug 28 '20

Being a developer from home; never work in an office again

#wordpress #opensource #github

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Aug 31 '20

Tutorial: how to build a simple admin dashboard interface using Bootstrap 5

#showdev #tutorial #opensource #bootstrap

12 min read

Souparno Paul for GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur

Aug 30 '20

Flutter, Google's one-stop solution for Native Applications

#opensource #flutter #appdev #beginners

7 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 31 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 33

#aws #opensource

13 min read

ThemeSelection for ThemeSelection

Aug 27 '20

The Most Trending⚡️ CSS Frameworks🛠 Analogy 2020

#webdev #opensource #css #javascript

12 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Aug 31 '20

Just do it! Don't wait to contribute to open source

#github #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Aug 31 '20

Offen as a Matomo alternative

#watercooler #privacy #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Aug 30 '20

It gone wrong, how do you deal with bad feedback?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Aug 31 '20

10-Step Guide to GitHub Contributions

#github #beginners #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Gustavo Castellanos

Aug 31 '20

My final report for the GSoC 2020

#gsoc #lua #parser #opensource

4 min read

Gitlab Meetup Community

Aug 30 '20

What's new in the GitLab release: 13.2 ?

#devops #opensource

2 min read

Ilemona Achimugu

Aug 12 '20

How to easily turn your website to a Progressive Web App(PWA)

#tutorial #javascript #opensource

13 min read

Justin E. Samuels

Aug 30 '20

What Are Demo Days?

#showdev #blacklivesmatter #career #opensource

4 min read

Miki

Aug 30 '20

A Github Actions to upload automatically your YouTube video to Anchor.fm

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

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