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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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Jul 21 '19

Do you actually want your own open source project?

#opensource

1 min read

lizziekardon for Pagely

Jul 23 '19

Can WordPress Developers and Security Researchers get along?

#wordpress #security #devops #opensource

7 min read

Artyom Keydunov for Cube

Jul 23 '19

Design Decisions for the First Embedded Analytics Open-Source Framework

#javascript #tutorial #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Jul 21 '19

Hackitect series vol.3 - Building Capture the flag for developers

#node #opensource #owasp #ubuntu

4 min read

Gerasimos (Makis) Maropoulos

Jul 19 '19

Iris version 11.2 released

#go #webdev #opensource #github

19 min read

Jason C. McDonald

Jul 17 '19

Updated #opensource Tag Guidelines

#opensource #meta

3 min read

Jeremy Katz for Tidelift

Jul 18 '19

Let’s extend continuous integration to our open source dependencies

#news #opensource #technology #programming

3 min read

Sm0ke

Jun 29 '19

React Dashboards

#react #dashboards #opensource #webdev

12 min read

Christian Heilmann

Jul 12 '19

A worrying change in Open Source perception

#opensource #community #empathy #codequality

7 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Oct 3 '19

How to Install Geany IDE on Linux

#howto #linux #opensource #ubuntu

3 min read

Jul 15 '19

Open Source? What's that?!!

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #sideprojects

5 min read

Jul 15 '19

A Python CLI Tool to Help Diff Web Framework Versions

#opensource #python #video #webdev

3 min read

Jul 13 '19

How I manage my dev bookmarks to save time and nerves

#productivity #programming #developer #opensource

3 min read

Jul 13 '19

Side Projects - The Starting Line

#sideprojects #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jul 12 '19

Improving your Open Source experience

#opensource

8 min read

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