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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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Ernesto Tagwerker (he/him) for FastRuby.io

Mar 30 '20

Our Guide for Unmaintained Open Source Projects

#opensource

6 min read

Rich Field

Mar 23 '20

🦠 COVID-19: How can we use our unique skillset to help our communities?

#discuss #opensource #webdev #covid19

2 min read

Cover image for Great time for a virtual hackathon 🧑‍💻💰

Mar 24 '20

Great time for a virtual hackathon 🧑‍💻💰

#hackathon #microservices #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Apr 2 '20

My Open Source Journey

#opensource #angular

3 min read

NSobolew

Mar 24 '20

Is such a package of illustrations needed?

#design #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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Oleg Sucharevich

Mar 23 '20

Continuous Automation with Open-Integration

#productivity #opensource #go #kubernetes

6 min read

Andrei Draganescu

Mar 20 '20

How open-source manages to be a capitalist win-win

#opensource #wordpress

6 min read

Mar 22 '20

Self-hosted team password manager using KeeWeb

#security #opensource #passwordmanager

5 min read

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Paul Gadi

Mar 16 '20

Decentralizing Video Games - An Introduction

#discuss #gamedev #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Mar 18 '20

Deliveries in the time of Corona - A WebApp for coordinating Deliveries

#opensource

3 min read

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manish srivastava

Mar 17 '20

Why Microsoft buys NPM ?

#npm #opensource #github #css

1 min read

manish srivastava

Mar 16 '20

DOCWIKI Released:-Call to Join Opensource Project : OSINT for Epidemics and Virus outbreaks like Corona Virus

#php #opensource #css #javascript

1 min read

Cover image for MESG Ecosystem Hackathon

Mar 10 '20

MESG Ecosystem Hackathon

#hackathon #blockchain #opensource #microservices

1 min read

Mar 11 '20

Introducing react-tweenful: Animation engine for React

#react #opensource #animation #javascript

5 min read

Mar 25 '17

As one does at three o'clock in the morning, I started a funky side project.

#1pr #opensource #github

1 min read

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