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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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Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Jul 23 '20

Live Exploiting Your Open Source Dependencies with Brian Vermeer

#codeland #security #opensource

1 min read

Lauren Stephenson

Aug 1 '20

10 tips for maintaining an open source project

#opensource #github

10 min read

Frank Boucher ☁

Aug 1 '20

Recap/ Summary Week #31

#showdev #devjournal #azure #opensource

1 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Jul 31 '20

[Week 31]Good First Issues

#goodfirstissue #opensource #github

2 min read

Beatriz Oliveira for Sysadminas

Jul 31 '20

Software Livre e Software Proprietário

#opensource #closedsource #infra #guiadeinfra

3 min read

Alexander Cucer

Jul 31 '20

Identity and Access Control (Management) module for NestJS

#nestjs #iam #module #opensource

1 min read

Navendu Pottekkat

Jul 30 '20

Block NSFW images using AI

#machinelearning #webdev #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Jul 27 '20

Update #1 - didi - docs, website and more!

#showdev #opensource #javascript #typescript

3 min read

Jul 23 '20

Why Forem is Special with Ben Halpern

#codeland #forem #opensource

1 min read

Jul 26 '20

How do you document your side projects?

#discuss #opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

Jul 27 '20

Contribute to Forem 🌱 in Gitpod on your own fork

#forem #gitpod #opensource #contributorswanted

3 min read

nastyox

Jun 28 '20

9 Steps to Get 100 Stars on GitHub

#opensource #github #webdev #javascript

4 min read

Marcelo Barreto

Jul 20 '20

An Introduction to Linux

#linux #unix #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Jul 29 '20

WIFI Drivers Fedora 32!

#linux #opensource #tutorial #git

2 min read

Jul 20 '20

Linux is a bigger threat to windows than you think

#linux #opensource #bash

2 min read

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