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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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Andreas

Feb 19 '20

22 Shout-Outs to Open Source and Infinite Creativity

#opensource #vue #react #angular

6 min read

anis dabdi

Feb 25 '20

10 helpful flags to use with git log command.

#git #vcs #opensource #github

4 min read

Ari V for Embark Studios

Feb 24 '20

Inside Rust at Embark 🦀

#rust #opensource #gamedev

6 min read

Feb 25 '20

How open-source developers can earn income each time their microservices are used by others

#opensource #blockchain #javascript #microservices

2 min read

Feb 25 '20

Buttono, a flexible Sass mixin for creating BEM-style buttons.

#css #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Grant McConnaughey

Feb 25 '20

Automate Python code quality checking for free with GitHub Actions, Flake8, and Lintly

#python #productivity #opensource #codequality

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 24 '20

AWS open source news and updates #8

#aws #opensource

7 min read

Ant Design

Feb 24 '20

Introduce AntV: a new player in data visualization

#visualization #d3 #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Feb 23 '20

Squid, a terminal for everyone

#showdev #opensource #electron #typescript

1 min read

MZ

Feb 23 '20

How to insert a div after another div in Javascript

#javascript #opensource #100daysofcode

4 min read

Feb 14 '20

🔥 Create your YOUR Personal Blog 📜 using Reactjs ⚛️ & Github Issues in less than 10 min 🕐

#react #beginners #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Feb 22 '20

Trying Solus Linux on Distrotest.net

#linux #distro #review #opensource

6 min read

Feb 21 '20

What interesting open source projects have you come along lately?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Feb 20 '20

How we launched a marketplace on the JAM stack for $10/mo 🤯

#startup #jamstack #opensource #buildinpublic

2 min read

Jeremy Morgan for Pluralsight

Feb 21 '20

Can you use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020?

#programming #productivity #opensource #linux

9 min read

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