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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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Cris 👨🏻‍💻

May 12 '20

Explain Open Source Software Licenses Like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive #opensource #linux #software

1 min read

Apr 24 '20

Get Involved: Open Source Healthcare Software

#opensource #webdev #covid19 #javascript

4 min read

Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

May 25 '17

How to Get Started with Open Source

#opensource #juniordevelopers #career

4 min read

Shubheksha Jalan

Sep 14 '16

New Contributors To Open Source, Please Blog More

#blogging #opensource

1 min read

May 24 '17

Surviving Open-Source

#opensource #startup #software #github

4 min read

TeamWicket

Apr 28 '20

BCP Calltree - Twilio SMS Api

#twiliohackathon #opensource #java

1 min read

May 20 '17

Community-driven software standards

#opensource #github #standards #community

7 min read

Shakshy Seth for DeepSource

Apr 30 '20

Spotlight Story: William Grzybowski, Lead Maintainer of FreeNAS

#python #opensource

2 min read

May 18 '17

Open Source: The itch, the hustle and the merge

#opensource #python #github #technology

7 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him)

May 16 '17

Lessons from my First Open Source Contribution

#opensource #career #motivation #beginners

3 min read

May 12 '17

How the Microsoft Bot Framework Changed Where My Friends and I Eat: Part 1

#dotnet #opensource #microsoft #bots

13 min read

May 9 '17

Contributing to .NET for Dummies

#dotnet #aspnet #microsoft #opensource

9 min read

Jobin Keecheril

Apr 21 '20

Installing Kubernetes on CentOS

#devops #kubernetes #opensource #linux

5 min read

dimazz

Mar 18 '20

Data Driven Blog

#vue #opensource #bootstrap #datadriven

1 min read

David Pereira for Urban Noise

Apr 18 '20

UrbanNoise, my open source project

#opensource #dotnet #motivation

4 min read

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