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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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dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Aug 13 '20

Share your GitHub Actions Hackathon Updates!

#actionshackathon #githubactions #opensource #meta

1 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Aug 14 '20

Good first issues with dry-rb

#opensource #github #dryrb #ruby

1 min read

Aug 14 '20

How to DIG in Git: Best Practices

#git #opensource #productivity #tutorial

3 min read

Harsh Zalavadiya

Aug 14 '20

Automating package publishing to NPM

#actionshackathon #github #actions #opensource

3 min read

Kirill Vasiltsov

Aug 14 '20

How to schedule serverless lambda execution with Github Actions

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Elena Kirilenko

Aug 13 '20

Fast and efficient recompression using previous compression artifacts

#compression #webdev #brotli #opensource

10 min read

Aug 14 '20

Microsoft to developers: These are our biggest and best open-source projects

#azure #developer #opensource

2 min read

Orta

Aug 13 '20

Let people own a subset of your repo

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Michael Z

Aug 13 '20

GitHub Actions: Setting up Test Coverage for a JS/TS/Node project

#github #git #devops #opensource

3 min read

Tidelift for Tidelift

Aug 13 '20

Webinar: Everything you never wanted to know about open source licenses and were too bored to ask

#opensource #licenses #legal

3 min read

Harish for GitHub Campus Experts

Aug 13 '20

Everything you need to know about GitHub Campus Expert 🚩

#showdev #github #opensource

3 min read

Thamara Andrade

Aug 10 '20

What I learned in (almost) one year of Open-Source

#opensource #github #tips

4 min read

Ilemona Achimugu

Aug 13 '20

Things you should know while learning to code.

#tutorial #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Aug 13 '20

You should know these things before contributing to an open source project

#opensource #javascript #react #frontend

1 min read

Dave Nugent 🌉

Aug 13 '20

Build an Edge-enabled Intelligent Chatbot with PubNub and Watson Assistant

#javascript #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

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