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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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Thamara Andrade

Aug 17 '20

GitHub Workflows: Update dependencies automatically

#github #githubworkflow #githubaction #opensource

5 min read

Leonardo Losoviz

Aug 17 '20

Automatically creating the release for a WordPress plugin

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #wordpress

3 min read

Niharika Singh ⛓

Aug 16 '20

Language Check

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Aug 16 '20

Whatsapp Notifications for Github

#actionshackathon #opensource #github #git

2 min read

Romain Lespinasse

Aug 16 '20

Keep your draw.io diagrams in sync inside your repository

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #drawio

1 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Aug 13 '20

GitHub Actions Hackathon Help Thread

#help #actionshackathon #githubactions #opensource

1 min read

Ahmed Gulab Khan

Aug 16 '20

GroupChatApp - A group chatting app using Flutter

#flutter #flutterdev #opensource #github

2 min read

Aug 16 '20

Add a Post on Dev after new Release on GitHub

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Hani

Aug 14 '20

Check if PR titles follow contribution guidelines

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Sayan Chakraborty

Aug 16 '20

Inspect yourself before you wreck yourself

#elixir #erlang #opensource

4 min read

Aug 16 '20

Url Shortner (Cuts your url)

#actionshackathon #opensource #github

1 min read

Aug 15 '20

How to build a dark mode theme using React Material UI, React context API and React hooks

#react #typescript #javascript #opensource

1 min read

timfong888

Aug 27 '20

Creating a course on DataOps / Data Engineering....

#opensource #database

2 min read

Rajitha Gunathilake

Aug 15 '20

Publish Gatsby Blog to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions

#actionshackathon #opensource #github #telegram

3 min read

Aug 15 '20

Build Notifications @ Slack using GitHub Notifications

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

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