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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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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Aug 24 '19

Feruz Oripov, The Real MVP.

#opensource #refactoring #meta

1 min read

John Dave Manuel

Aug 29 '19

Firebase CRUD

#opensource #firebase #crud #bootstrap

1 min read

Victoria Ubaldo

Aug 23 '19

4 Great initiatives to find open source projects

#opensource #productivity #beginners #github

1 min read

Aug 13 '19

How open-source will Tumblr become?

#discuss #opensource #wordpress #news

1 min read

Yohan Lasorsa for ITNEXT

Aug 16 '19

The ultimate (free) CI/CD for your open-source projects

#opensource #github #devops #azure

12 min read

Ali Abbas

Aug 22 '19

Curated List of Open Source Programs, Events, and Competitions

#discuss #opensource #github #beginners

3 min read

Aug 24 '19

What are your favorite open source projects?

#discuss #opensource #javascript

1 min read

João Guimarães

Aug 22 '19

Designing an API

#microservices #design #productivity #opensource

9 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Aug 8 '19

DEV Went Open Source One Year Ago Today, And We Have So Much More Planned!

#meta #opensource #github #rails

4 min read

Erika Heidi for DigitalOcean

Aug 19 '19

Tell us your Thoughts About Open Source

#discuss #healthydebate #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Aug 27 '19

WebMaker APP: Offline Web Development Play-Ground

#opensource #fossstories #howto #internet

3 min read

Aaron Powell for .NET

Aug 20 '19

What Licenses Are in Use?

#showdev #dotnet #fsharp #opensource

3 min read

Shawn Adams for Rockset

Aug 30 '19

Optimizing Bulk Load in RocksDB

#database #opensource

5 min read

Aug 17 '19

Starting Over: And That's Ok

#jellyfin #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Roelof Jan Elsinga

Aug 26 '19

My recent open source contributions (August 2019)

#opensource #software #php #github

2 min read

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