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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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Carolyn Stransky for Meeshkan

Apr 14 '20

Six questions to answer before implementing a telemetry feature

#opensource #ethics #data

6 min read

Bernd Verst for Microsoft Azure

Apr 14 '20

From Cloud Security Alert to Open Source Bugfix

#security #opensource #azure #kubernetes

4 min read

Mar 16 '20

Crowd brainstorm covid-19

#discuss #osscovid19 #opensource

1 min read

Apr 12 '20

⬡ Hive — Team notes on web pages, stored in Airtable

#showdev #opensource #vue #webdev

1 min read

Nodawan

Apr 2 '20

Want to contribute to open source software

#opensource #node #beginners #javascript

1 min read

Nikolaos Kamarinakis for Meeshkan

Apr 3 '20

Weekly metrics for your GitHub repos with VANITY

#showdev #opensource #github

2 min read

Ernesto Tagwerker (he/him) for FastRuby.io

Mar 30 '20

Our Guide for Unmaintained Open Source Projects

#opensource

6 min read

Rich Field

Mar 23 '20

🦠 COVID-19: How can we use our unique skillset to help our communities?

#discuss #opensource #webdev #covid19

2 min read

Mar 24 '20

Great time for a virtual hackathon 🧑‍💻💰

#hackathon #microservices #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Apr 2 '20

My Open Source Journey

#opensource #angular

3 min read

NSobolew

Mar 24 '20

Is such a package of illustrations needed?

#design #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Oleg Sucharevich

Mar 23 '20

Continuous Automation with Open-Integration

#productivity #opensource #go #kubernetes

6 min read

Andrei Draganescu

Mar 20 '20

How open-source manages to be a capitalist win-win

#opensource #wordpress

6 min read

Mar 22 '20

Self-hosted team password manager using KeeWeb

#security #opensource #passwordmanager

5 min read

Paul Gadi

Mar 16 '20

Decentralizing Video Games - An Introduction

#discuss #gamedev #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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