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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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Joe Kutner for Heroku

Aug 3 '20

Ground Control to Major TOML: Why Buildpacks Use a Most Peculiar Format

#devops #opensource #buildpacks #cloudnative

3 min read

Jul 22 '20

How to use multiple GitHub accounts on single machine

#github #git #opensource #githunt

1 min read

Benoît Tallandier

Jul 22 '20

Build a strong community 💪

#opensource #community #saas

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jul 20 '20

Bootstrap 5 tutorial: learn how to get started without jQuery

#bootstrap #javascript #tutorial #opensource

14 min read

Uzay-G

Jul 21 '20

ARCHITECTURE.md

#opensource

2 min read

Nimrod Kramer for daily.dev

Jul 21 '20

How to gain experience as a web developer? Powerful ideas for code newbies

#opensource #webdev #codenewbie #career

5 min read

Natalie A. Wiser for New Relic

Jul 21 '20

New Relic, Programmability and Open Source

#newrelic #opensource #observability #java

5 min read

Valeri Karpov for Tidelift

Jul 21 '20

Tech books vs online documentation: what's the difference?

#mongoose #node #opensource #documentation

4 min read

Jul 21 '20

Awesome github readme templates collection

#showdev #watercooler #opensource

1 min read

Barabazs

Jul 21 '20

I've open sourced Feedly2Instapaper

#showdev #automation #python #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 20 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 29

#opensource #aws

24 min read

Abby

Jul 21 '20

Introduction to an OpenSource Embedded Real-Time Operating System

#opensource

2 min read

Mathieu Ferment

Jul 20 '20

What it means to rebase a Pull Request submitted on GitHub

#github #opensource #git

6 min read

Jul 20 '20

How to set up your own VPN Client in 15 mins 💻

#azure #linux #opensource

2 min read

Elangovan

Jul 20 '20

Awesome github readme templates collection

#showdev #watercooler #opensource

1 min read

Preslav Mihaylov

Jul 19 '20

Eliminate the undocumented TODOs with todocheck

#todocheck #productivity #opensource #go

3 min read

Jul 20 '20

GSoC 20: Week 7

#python #opensource #gsoc

2 min read

Jul 14 '20

How I got 100+ ⭐️ in just less than a day on GitHub?!

#showdev #github #opensource

1 min read

Jul 16 '20

ARCTIC CODE VAULT BY GITHUB ORGANIZATION

#news #git #opensource

2 min read

Jul 15 '20

My crazy launch. 33.000 visitors💥, No.1 on several platforms.

#showdev #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Bruno Vezoli for Rootstrap

Jul 16 '20

A Take on Empowering ActiveRecord

#rails #activerecord #opensource #sql

3 min read

Jul 18 '20

Raising my first pull request to Forem

#opensource #forem #beginners

3 min read

Jul 19 '20

Godfatherr

#go #library #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Jul 19 '20

Help needed: Open source react component

#help #contributorswanted #react #opensource

2 min read

Jul 18 '20

Install docker on RHEL 8

#tutorial #beginners #linux #opensource

2 min read

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