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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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 20 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 29

#opensource #aws

24 min read

Abby

Jul 21 '20

Introduction to an OpenSource Embedded Real-Time Operating System

#opensource

2 min read

Mathieu Ferment

Jul 20 '20

What it means to rebase a Pull Request submitted on GitHub

#github #opensource #git

6 min read

Jul 20 '20

How to set up your own VPN Client in 15 mins 💻

#azure #linux #opensource

2 min read

Preslav Mihaylov

Jul 19 '20

Eliminate the undocumented TODOs with todocheck

#todocheck #productivity #opensource #go

3 min read

Jul 14 '20

How I got 100+ ⭐️ in just less than a day on GitHub?!

#showdev #github #opensource

1 min read

Jul 16 '20

ARCTIC CODE VAULT BY GITHUB ORGANIZATION

#news #git #opensource

2 min read

Jul 15 '20

My crazy launch. 33.000 visitors💥, No.1 on several platforms.

#showdev #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Bruno Vezoli for Rootstrap

Jul 16 '20

A Take on Empowering ActiveRecord

#rails #activerecord #opensource #sql

3 min read

Jul 18 '20

Raising my first pull request to Forem

#opensource #forem #beginners

3 min read

Jul 19 '20

Help needed: Open source react component

#help #contributorswanted #react #opensource

2 min read

Jul 18 '20

Got a new badge on GitHub.

#github #opensource #javascript #react

1 min read

Jul 18 '20

Install docker on RHEL 8

#tutorial #beginners #linux #opensource

2 min read

Ballcapz

Jul 18 '20

Install Spacemacs on Windows

#opensource #productivity

2 min read

Tanvesh Takawale

Jul 16 '20

GitHub Arctic Code Vault

#github #opensource #git

1 min read

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