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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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Nov 16 '20

Solve CRA 4.0 slow recompile time

#react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Nov 15 '20

Tests are awesome!

#testing #beginners #opensource #codenewbie

1 min read

Nov 14 '20

Making Newbie Friendly Open Source

#hacktoberfest #python #opensource #codenewbie

6 min read

Nov 15 '20

Static Analysis Tool

#opensource #go

1 min read

Abdulbasid Guled

Nov 15 '20

Lab 7: Linters and Code Formatters are really powerful tools

#opensource

2 min read

John Fay

Nov 13 '20

Upgrading to React 17

#react #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Ray

Nov 14 '20

Lob 7, the tools I'll never do without

#opensource

4 min read

Gavin for RudderStack

Nov 13 '20

Devs Wanted: Get paid to contribute to RudderStack's open source software

#opensource #github #sponsors #rudderstack

3 min read

Jonathan Sundqvist

Nov 15 '20

How to configure github actions for a python package

#programming #ci #python #opensource

1 min read

Nov 12 '20

How to grow as a developer

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #career

4 min read

Nov 12 '20

Inviting frontend devs to FluidCSS!

#css #html #opensource

2 min read

Sriya

Oct 15 '20

Done with Hacktoberfest yay!

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

Nov 13 '20

Whats your take on Webhooks?

#webdev #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Nov 13 '20

Trying to grow an open-source ETL project with PHP

#bigdata #database #opensource #php

1 min read

Oct 15 '20

Completed my Hacktoberfest Challenge 2020.. 🤞🤩

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #devgrad2020

1 min read

Nov 13 '20

Concurrent Futures and Showing Progress

#opensource #python

2 min read

Nov 14 '20

Build your own serverless subscriber list with Go and AWS

#showdev #opensource #go

7 min read

Oct 15 '20

HACKTOBER FEST 2K20-experience

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github

1 min read

Nov 13 '20

You're doing Javascript exports wrong, here's why.

#javascript #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Mathieu Ferment

Nov 13 '20

Why should I contribute to Open Source?

#opensource #contribution

7 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Nov 12 '20

🦄 React Emoji Search - An OSS Project

#showdev #react #opensource #css

1 min read

Abhishek

Nov 13 '20

Hactoberfest2020 and First OpenSource

#github #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 14 '20

What a good PR looks like

#opensource

4 min read

Alan Lee

Nov 12 '20

How to Retrieve a Movie's Official Poster with Reshuffle Open Source

#javascript #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Icegotcha Fantasoxy

Nov 12 '20

My First Serious Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2020 #opensource

2 min read

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