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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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Oleksii Trekhleb

Mar 23 '20

📈 I've open-sourced a simple Coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard (React + Chart.js + BootstrapTable)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #dataviz

2 min read

Apr 11 '20

Your Web presence with Django.

#django #opensource #python #podcast

3 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Apr 11 '20

Automate Conversion of your CODE to PNGs with this GITHUB ACTION 😎

#showdev #opensource #automate #devops

1 min read

Apr 11 '20

Track a Virus: Open Source COVID-19 Dashboard with React, TypeScript, and MobX

#showdev #react #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Apr 9 '20

I3: The Improved Tiling Window Manager

#linux #opensource #ubuntu

8 min read

Mar 31 '20

Theia 1.0 - Finally a Good Browser IDE

#productivity #vscode #opensource #devops

5 min read

Apr 10 '20

CovidX : Watsapp Chatbot for information on Covid-19

#twiliohackathon #python #covid19 #opensource

4 min read

Apr 11 '20

Convert any Visual Studio Code Theme to Sublime Text 3 or IntelliJ IDEA

#opensource #vscode #typescript #javascript

1 min read

Mar 26 '20

Ever dreamed of a free and open-source resume builder that doesn't store your data? Meet Reactive Resume!

#resume #opensource #react #javascript

3 min read

Apr 10 '20

How to connect to your Kubernetes services using internal DNS

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #linux

3 min read

Cameron Miller for Tidelift

Apr 9 '20

Why scanning isn't enough

#opensource #security #productivity

5 min read

Tarun Pai

Apr 9 '20

Contributing to Open-Source - A beginner's guide

#opensource #javascript #vue #webdev

6 min read

Apr 7 '20

Sorbet (Ruby type checker) seems really neat!

#sorbet #ruby #opensource

1 min read

Apr 8 '20

Get customized weather updates through SMS

#twiliohackathon #opensource

1 min read

Matt Netkow for Ionic

Apr 24 '20

Announcing Capacitor 2.0

#webdev #android #opensource #ios

7 min read

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