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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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Rafael E. Poveda

Jun 2 '19

Contributing to open source...

#react #opensource

4 min read

May 29 '19

Quiz Application for Web Developers

#showdev #opensource #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Stafford Williams

May 27 '19

Docker containers aren't just for long running tasks

#showdev #docker #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mikoyoarts

May 24 '19

Getting Started with PHP for WEB

#php #beginners #webdev #opensource

2 min read

May 28 '19

Learning a New and Unfamiliar Code Base

#beginners #opensource #video #webdev

3 min read

Kmaschta

May 28 '19

Releasing Comfygure 1.0

#showdev #devops #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Victor Bjelkholm

May 23 '19

The Need For Open Source Infrastructure To Be Open

#github #opensource #infrastructure

2 min read

roookeee

May 27 '19

datus - a fluent java data-mapping library

#java #functional #opensource

1 min read

Federico Kauffman

May 16 '19

Pull Request previews for Open Source libraries with Netlify

#opensource #testing #tutorial #netlify

4 min read

Tim Heuer

May 14 '19

Building and Customizing the new Windows Terminal

#beginners #opensource #productivity #bash

10 min read

May 14 '19

What Makes a Good Open Source Project?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Glenn Carremans

May 8 '19

My Contribution to CDNJS

#opensource #cdnjs #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Josh Wulf

May 10 '19

How to select an Open Source Project to contribute to

#opensource #career #careerdevelopment

1 min read

May 9 '19

The European Union and Open Source Software

#eu #opensource #eufossa

3 min read

May 9 '19

Introducing Brushable Histogram

#react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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