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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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Fingent

May 8 '19

Open Source - Valuing its Impact on Businesses in 2019

#opensourcetechnology #opensource

4 min read

Apr 29 '19

Contribute to Open Source

#javascript #java #opensource

1 min read

May 3 '19

[Notice] New RFv2 Update Patch v0.16.7.1

#microbitcoin #opensource #blockchain #mining

1 min read

Timur Minulin for Cube

Apr 25 '19

React Native Charts with Cube.js and Victory

#tutorials #javascript #opensource #mobile

5 min read

liajoy

Apr 29 '19

How to extract features from a library

#javascript #node #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Apr 19 '19

How to turn a bash script into a Mac app

#opensource #tutorial #bash

2 min read

Apr 19 '19

Blazor now in official preview!

#dotnet #csharp #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 21 '19

StormScript: Year in Review

#opensource #cpp #stormscript #linux

3 min read

Apr 19 '19

feedback for speedle open source project

#accesscontrol #security #authorization #opensource

1 min read

Greg Lind

Apr 14 '19

Building Sustainable Open Source Communities

#healthydebate #opensource #career #licenses

5 min read

Henry

Apr 4 '19

Hope in Source Episode 11: City as Liturgy

#podcast #opensource

1 min read

Ashraf Alam for EISK

Apr 3 '19

EISK - Introducing New ASP.NET Core Starter Template

#news #opensource #aspnet #dotnet

1 min read

Apr 1 '19

My first open source project - super simple cli testing tool

#testing #go #opensource #shell

3 min read

Mar 26 '19

Was MongoDB Ever the Right Choice?

#discuss #mongodb #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Haripriya Lekshmi

Mar 28 '19

Tips to Improve MySQL Query Performance

#mysql #rdbms #relationaldatabase #opensource

1 min read

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