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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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jorin

Oct 11 '17

Use Go Channels to Build a Crawler

#go #opensource #learning #security

5 min read

Stojan Anastasov

Oct 13 '17

Contributing to OSS for Hacktoberfest

#discuss #development #opensource #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Ritchie Einstein

Oct 8 '17

How to Begin Contributions to Open Source Projects?

#discuss #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Oct 9 '17

How to star contributing to Open source projects ?

#discuss #opensource #github #firsttimers

1 min read

Oct 2 '17

What are you working on for Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #career

1 min read

Oct 4 '17

Rapid development of Kubernetes services with Telepresence

#opensource #devtips #kubernetes #development

2 min read

Sep 27 '17

Explain Facebook's BSD+patents license like I'm five

#discuss #explainlikeimfive #opensource #react

1 min read

Muhammad Syuqri

Aug 21 '20

Newbiefy - Make Your Repo Beginner Friendly Again

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

dev

Aug 13 '20

NPM Packages: Is there a problem??

#node #javascript #npm #opensource

1 min read

Shubheksha Jalan

Feb 8 '18

How I got into Mozilla’s Outreachy open source internship program

#programming #startup #opensource #womenintech

6 min read

Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Sep 15 '17

WordPress-React Breakup: Suggest A JavaScript Framework to WordPress & Tell Why? [POLL]"

#discuss #javascript #wordpress #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for Why hackathons should insist on free software.

Alexander Omorokunwa

Oct 30 '17

Why hackathons should insist on free software.

#opensource #fossstories #fossnigeria

3 min read

Sep 19 '17

🚀 Introducing Lozad.js: Performant & light lazy loading library

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webperf

2 min read

Flynn

Sep 12 '17

Getting started with Lyft Envoy for microservices resilience

#programming #opensource #c #microservices

9 min read

Sep 14 '17

Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec tests

#opensource #rspec #testing #rails

1 min read

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