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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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Sathish

Dec 27 '17

Explain how to become an active open source contributor like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive #opensource #programming #github

1 min read

Dec 27 '17

Project Development Process

#discuss #webdev #opensource #deployment

1 min read

Dec 20 '17

What are the best practices for accepting PRs?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Dec 10 '17

Regex was taking 5 days to run. So I built a tool that did it in 15 minutes.

#opensource #python #nlp #informationretrieval

6 min read

Dec 22 '17

Facebook Noise Filter

#discuss #opensource #electron #webscraping

1 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jan 17 '18

How to install Spotify in Ubuntu Linux

#opensource #howto #linux

3 min read

Dec 19 '17

Let’s study your Open Source Community

#community #developer #github #opensource

3 min read

Tane Piper

Dec 18 '17

Music Markup - Web Components for Web Audio

#showdev #webcomponents #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Tane Piper

Dec 17 '17

Rapid prototyping with Takeoff

#showdev #opensource #javascript #docker

2 min read

Dec 4 '17

What are some examples of great contributor onboarding for an open source project?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

roxus

Dec 15 '17

Notepad "Boostnote" which can be written with Markdown is very useful

#markdown #productivity #opensource #react

2 min read

Dec 15 '17

Generate email list automatically with automaildoc

#showdev #ruby #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Idrees Dargahwala

Dec 17 '17

functions.js

#showdev #javascript #npm #opensource

1 min read

Monica Granbois

Dec 14 '17

Thoughts on receiving my first pull request

#opensource #github

3 min read

Ligin Vellakkad

Dec 14 '17

Skimming through a Book

#opensource #linux #tutorial

3 min read

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