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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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Alexander Omorokunwa

May 23 '18

How to Change Bootstrap Default Colour Theme: Without writing Code.

#bootstrap #howto #mobile #opensource

3 min read

May 12 '18

Git Submodules Revisited

#git #opensource #engineering

3 min read

May 7 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 7 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Apr 30 '19

Graph Data Structures Explained in JavaScript

#javascript #node #opensource #algorithms

13 min read

May 14 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (May 14 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

GaelS

May 15 '18

A Github's search engine for OSS contributors wannabe

#showdev #beginners #opensource #react

1 min read

Jun 9 '18

Rediscovering the Joy of Linux*

#linux #operatingsystem #opensource #learning

9 min read

May 7 '18

One Breath - Kotlin and Breathing

#showdev #android #opensource

2 min read

May 5 '18

Intro to Google Summer of Code with Systers Open Source

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #systers #opensource

3 min read

May 6 '18

How do you encourage clients or employers to open source?

#discuss #opensource #business

1 min read

Periklis Gkolias

May 8 '18

How being lazy, led me to publicize my first python package

#python #pythonpackages #pypi #opensource

3 min read

Nuster Cache Server

May 8 '18

nuster - A cache proxy server released v1.8.8.1: HTTP/2 support

#showdev #devops #opensource #linux

1 min read

May 2 '18

.eslintrc without file extension is deprecated

#javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Christine Spang

Apr 18 '18

Hi, I’m Christine and I started contributing to Debian when I was 15. Now I’m the CTO of Nylas, ask me anything!

#ama #linux #opensource

1 min read

Apr 30 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (April 30 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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