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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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Rafiullah Hamedy

Aug 22 '19

Why you should think twice about contributing to Open Source

#opensource #beginners #productivity #motivation

7 min read

Sep 3 '19

A System for Sustainable FOSS

#discuss #opensource #devtools

9 min read

Aug 29 '19

How can open source contributors and maintainers engage in a respectful ongoing relationship?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

🦁 Yvonnick FRIN

Sep 6 '19

I wonder how GitHub's trending algorithm works. Any clue ?

#discuss #opensource #github

1 min read

Sep 6 '19

5 ways to thank your favourite open source projects

#opensource #contributors #sponsors

3 min read

neex

Sep 4 '19

Hacktoberfest 2019 updates posted. Get ready everyone!

#news #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

Sep 4 '19

Syncing Github Forks in 2 steps

#github #gitlab #git #opensource

1 min read

Peter Kim Frank

Aug 28 '19

How did you feel after your first open source PR?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Aug 29 '19

Ads In Your Linters

#discuss #javascript #opensource #healthydebate

1 min read

Aug 29 '19

Please don't forget to write the changelog

#ux #writing #tips #opensource

6 min read

Uku Täht

Sep 5 '19

Plausible is going open-source

#showdev #elixir #opensource

3 min read

Areahints

Sep 1 '19

Who is an open source Developer?

#opensource #programmers #software

2 min read

🦁 Yvonnick FRIN for Zenika

Aug 28 '19

Preparing your project being open sourced

#tutorial #opensource #beginners

5 min read

Aug 31 '19

How to anonymize your GitHub activity

#anonymous #github #opensource #vcs

4 min read

Aug 30 '19

You are only paying a small part of your dev team

#nuget #npm #opensource #isv

4 min read

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