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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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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Mar 16 '18

Dev Chats: Monica Dinculescu

#polymer #emoji #opensource #publicspeaking

4 min read

Frank@theOpenSourceU.org

Mar 20 '18

Bit Masks

#opensource #ossconcepts #computerscience #reference

1 min read

Frank@theOpenSourceU.org

Mar 15 '18

Revisited Concept: High Performance web server w/ Promises

#exploration #opensource #github #node

14 min read

Frank@theOpenSourceU.org

Mar 5 '18

Concepts to Implementations: Promise

#exploration #opensource #softwareengineering

3 min read

Dvid Silva

Feb 20 '18

Front end challenges to become a better developer - codecorgi

#showdev #codechallenges #opensource

1 min read

Oct 3 '18

Why Youtube is 2ND MOST POPULAR WEBSITE on this planet?

#discuss #opensource #marketplace #youtube

3 min read

Hubrix

Feb 5 '18

Hubrix accepting applicants for Hurima™ Beta, now through March 1

#showdev #testing #devops #opensource

2 min read

Mike

Jan 29 '18

Hosts which offer OSS discounts?

#discuss #opensource #fundossdiscounts

1 min read

Jan 27 '18

Getting Out of the Open Source Toy Box

#beginners #career #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Paula

Jan 12 '18

インターネットの安全

#security #opensource #basic

1 min read

Lion

Sep 6 '18

Public domain single-header mp3 decoder

#opensource #c #mp3

1 min read

Aug 28 '18

The $500 MILLION dollar cost of WordPress Gutenberg

#wordpress #opensource #gutenberg #php

1 min read

Mik Seljamaa 🇪🇪

Nov 29 '17

Mining the Wayback Machine for Useful articles

#archives #opensource #webeconomy

1 min read

Nov 21 '17

Open Source, PHP and Visual Studio Code

#visualstudiocode #opensource #php

2 min read

Nov 17 '17

Faster Test Suites, Less Code, Embracing Writing Addons.

#git #opensource #ember #testing

2 min read

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