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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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Donald Fischer for Tidelift

Apr 21 '20

COVID-19 will accelerate, not delay, tech innovation

#covid19 #opensource #technology #coronavirus

4 min read

Apr 20 '20

Convert Video to text in Ruby

#ruby #webdev #rails #opensource

2 min read

Ignat Korchagin

Apr 18 '20

Using Go as a scripting language in Linux

#go #linux #opensource

7 min read

Apr 20 '20

#WebDev on web.dev - OGP doesn't pickup double quote #2627

#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Apr 20 '20

Blog post: Release 1.19 of Date::Holidays

#perl #opensource #release

1 min read

Apr 20 '20

List of Cool Open Source DL/ML repos by the Giants

#discuss #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 20 '20

AWS open source news and updates - No. 16

#aws #opensource

10 min read

Apr 19 '20

PHPMailer: How to send Emails in PHP

#php #webdev #codenewbie #opensource

4 min read

dokitboy

Apr 22 '20

A full-featured App (iOS & Android) development assistant. You deserve it.

#ios #android #opensource

3 min read

Apr 19 '20

Manticore 1.0 is released!

#showdev #python #opensource

1 min read

Apr 4 '20

The Linux Desktop Deep Dive

#linux #opensource #ubuntu

5 min read

Ignat Korchagin

Apr 18 '20

Fixing weak crypto in OpenSSL based applications

#security #crypto #opensource #linux

16 min read

Apr 17 '20

Twilio hackathon Project update: Received; UI

#twiliohackathon #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Oscar Spencer for Tidelift

Apr 16 '20

Unconventional Vue—Vue as a Backend Framework

#showdev #vue #javascript #opensource

7 min read

Phil Nash

Apr 14 '20

I built a VSCode extension: ngrok for VSCode

#showdev #vscode #ngrok #opensource

3 min read

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