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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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Aug 16 '20

Great Examples of Issues and Pull Requests

#discuss #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Arthur Henrique

Aug 21 '20

GitHub's Open Source support

#discuss #opensource #github

1 min read

Shubham

Aug 21 '20

My experience as an MLH Fellow of Class 0

#javascript #mlhgrad #career #opensource

10 min read

Prafulla Raichurkar

Aug 20 '20

Working on Github Actions - Update 1 (The Idea)

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Aug 20 '20

Reflecting on my open source journey during COVID

#watercooler #opensource

2 min read

Aug 17 '20

You Should Use Strapi

#webdev #node #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

Ivan Huerta for Parabeac

Aug 20 '20

Why we open-sourced our company

#dart #flutter #opensource #design

2 min read

Tyler V.

Aug 20 '20

Happy-PR: Pull Request Sentiment Analysis with GitHub Actions

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Aug 20 '20

Deploy Django application to Heroku using GitHub Actions

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Aug 20 '20

Contributing to n8n through the MLH Fellowship

#opensource #career #mlhgrad

2 min read

Arkodyuti Saha for Microsoft Azure

Aug 19 '20

Join us at jCloud Day!

#java #azure #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Justin

Aug 20 '20

Automatically Create a Release When The package.json Version Changes

#actionshackathon #github #git #opensource

1 min read

Aug 20 '20

Brief Introduction to the Installation Guide of Forem/Dev

#selfhosting #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Aug 16 '20

Has Umbraco turned into the "tourist trap" of open source .net CMSs

#umbraco #opensource

8 min read

Gabriel Cruz (he/him)

Aug 17 '20

I created the official MLH Fellowhip CTF competition as a fellow

#beginners #security #opensource #mlhgrad

4 min read

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