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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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Mar 8 '20

Introducing, Be Thrifty Today: A Simple & Secure Money Manager (Open Source, Flutter + Firebase)

#flutter #firebase #opensource #android

1 min read

Ryan Yost

Mar 1 '20

7 projects starred by top JavaScript developers that you should check out

#javascript #opensource #webdev #npm

3 min read

Mar 18 '20

300 free MIT-licensed SVG icons based on 2px stroke

#svg #icons #mit #opensource

1 min read

Simme for k6

Mar 12 '20

Open source load testing tool review 2020

#devops #testing #performance #opensource

59 min read

Mar 6 '20

Why I made 29 PR's in the repository of 11ty's documentation

#beginners #opensource #productivity #eleventy

2 min read

Vincent

Mar 6 '20

Releasing `javascript-library-template`

#javascript #node #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Progress Telerik for Progress Telerik

Mar 11 '20

Can We Make Open Source More Sustainable?

#webdev #opensource

13 min read

Jacer Omri

Mar 3 '20

A First Glance at AdonisJS 5.0 Preview

#javascript #opensource #typescript #webdev

4 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Mar 3 '20

Hasura lands a $9.9M to simplify GraphQL development

#showdev #graphql #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mar 5 '20

Homebrew: Beginner's guide to installation and usage. Mac OS X

#mac #opensource #beginners #automation

3 min read

Feb 28 '20

Functional programming in Javascript

#functional #javascript #computerscience #opensource

11 min read

Abhinav Deep Rastogi

Mar 4 '20

What is ReactJS?

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Claire B for Com2Kube

Mar 4 '20

DevOps Handy Tool: Com2kube

#docker #kubernetes #devops #opensource

1 min read

Mar 3 '20

My Hacktoberfest 2019 Experience - First Times, Tons of Learning, Stress, Self-Doubt and at the end of it all...SWAG!

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Max Lynch for Ionic

Mar 20 '20

How Capacitor Works

#capacitor #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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