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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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Andres Cespedes Morales

Aug 5 '17

Debug Like a Champion

#java #debug #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Feb 6 '18

How to install phpmyadmin on Linux (Ubuntu)

#opensource #howto #linux

3 min read

Jun 14 '20

For the love of Open Source

#webdev #opensource #tools

2 min read

Parulian Sinaga

Jul 11 '20

Ruby cursor pagination (2)

#ruby #rails #opensource #github

3 min read

chandewardnyanesh

May 29 '20

Become an Open Source Contributor

#opensource #github #git

4 min read

Alexander Wende

Jun 27 '20

Open Source Funding Survey

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jan 20 '18

How to install LAMP server in Linux (Ubuntu)

#opensource #howto #linux

5 min read

Boris Modylevsky

Jul 11 '17

How to choose an open source project to contribute to?

#opensource #contributing #programming #career

3 min read

Ido Shamun for daily.dev

Jun 17 '20

🔥 What's Hot in Web Development? — Weekly Picks #132

#opensource #codenewbie #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Jake Dohm

May 18 '20

Defining "Done"

#projectmanagement #opensource #web

3 min read

May 20 '20

My first step to Android Dev

#devgrad2020 #octograd2020 #opensource

1 min read

Jun 16 '20

Open source + proprietary code structure

#discuss #opensource #help

1 min read

Jun 14 '20

Guide to setup your first blog with Continuous Deployments pipeline

#devops #tutorial #opensource #github

4 min read

Anthony Thong Do

May 15 '20

Introducing Open-source Smart Date Parser

#chrono #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Jun 14 '20

How to monitor & analyze your windows based system's battery?

#showdev #opensource #javascript #news

3 min read

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